A motivated skeptic asks if the evidence compels them to accept the conclusion; a motivated credulist asks if the evidence allows them to accept the conclusion.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind (Rationality

…it would surely be irresponsible to expect average learners to become adept, all on their own, at discriminating among the gigabytes of information thrown at them every day.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

…two key aspects of philosophical theoria. There is the theion and the oraio; the divine that we are seeking to locate within the real, and the act of seeing that contemplates it: there is that which one tries to understand and that with which one tries to accede to understanding (the instruments one employs to get there).

— Luc Ferry, A Brief History of Thought

Yet both hypocritical anti-imperialists and more impartial pacifists frequently conflate militarism – the policy of building armed forces and using them aggressively to advance national interests against other states – with deterrence and just war theories created to counter militarism.

— Shaun O’Dwyer, Mohist Anti-Militarism & Just War Theory

People see violence as moral, not immoral: across the world and throughout history, more people have been murdered to mete out justice than to satisfy greed.

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now