Ministry of Defense is more respectable than Ministry of War. It implies we’re reacting to aggression whenever we engage in combat.

— Ali Almossawi and Alejandro Giraldo, An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language

A man of the Classical Age who had to live in medieval times would suffocate miserably just as a savage does in the midst of our civilisation.

— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

The only way to remain a long-term leader of a genuinely successful company is to continually create space for others to take the recognition, reward, and work that got you to where you’re currently sitting.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer

The disagreements dividing Protestants from Catholics were about the internal consistency of the magical rules within their common fantasy scheme.

— Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland

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