it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which they are similar than to the ways in which they differ....
The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is past - forever. You know that the ONLY REASON for a human being's life on this earth is to attain to the Knowledge of God - all else is nothing, all els...
What did she love Shelley for? His reckless spontaneity -- like this. His helpless generous nature -- like this. His treatment of her as a reasonable human being and not a trembling little rose -- and so on. If she loved him for these things, could s...
As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted only when there is something prepared to paint it on, so carnal love is only legitimate, reasonable, and lasting when it is based on t...
I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of s...
I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.
Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.
There is a self-destructive program running in the consciousness of humanity, and we must write a new program.
No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life.
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions
The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.
The highway of human possibility extends on forever into unknown territories, which have not yet been imagined.
The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).
The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
