You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From the Underground

Any professional negotiator knows that to control the terms of a debate is very nearly to control the outcome of the debate.

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

I firmly believe that the important things about humans are social in character and that relief by machines from many of our present demanding intellectual functions will finally give the human race time and incentive to learn how to live well together.

— Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By

It is as dangerous as it is absurd to pretend that we cannot make any judgments about the practices of a culture other than our own.

— Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories

…they both noticed obvious and important empirical truths that should have been investigated by other scientists but were reflexively rejected by these scientists because the suggested explanations were not in line with the conventional thinking of the time. Today, this is known as a Semmelweis reflex.

— Gabriel Weinberg, Lauren McCann, Super Thinking