Next I suggest that YOU get to decide what’s a game and what isn’t, what needs to be taken seriously and what doesn’t. Life doesn’t come prelabeled as serious and not serious. You are the labeler.

— Jim Dethmer, Conscious Competition

Kant seems to argue that dignity flows from and is thus conceptually subordinate to autonomy, which he takes to be the central feature giving humans moral value.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

All of us who prize greater economic equality would do well to remember that with the rarest of exceptions it was only ever brought forth in sorrow. Be careful what you wish for.

— Walter Scheidel, Enlightenment Now

My fundamental premise about the brain is that all its workings – what we sometimes call “mind” – are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology and nothing more.

— Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden

Fragility: we have been progressively separating human courage from warfare, allowing wimps with computer skills to kill people without the slightest risk to their lives.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes