…perhaps happiness is synchronising one’s personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions.

— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens

Thoreau provides us with a kind of comforting perspective on loneliness, by pointing out that no matter how hard we try there will always be a chasm of consciousness between me and another person.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

Postcolonial Theory establishes much of its claim to importance by assuming there must be permanent problems that have been handed down to us through language constructed centuries ago.

— Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories

…postmodernist critics of science often grossly fail to understand the empirical claims of science and the ways in which its key theoretical terms work, and often subsitute for them, when they apply scientific modes of thought to the political world, a number of tendentiously vague and misleading metaphors.

— Christopher Butler, Postmodernism

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we respond to noise.

— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy