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That your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Flutists and harpists do not adjust their melody or rhythm according to the taste of the multitude, they base it on what suits themselves. Why, then, should the wise man, who is the practitioner of a far greater art, follow the pleasure of the crowd, instead of pursuing the truth without regard to popular pressures?
On the Good Life
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To the Orphic, life in this world is pain and weariness. We are bound to a wheel which turns through endless cycles of birth and death; our true life is of the stars, but we are tied to earth. Only by purification and renunciation and an ascetic life can we escape from the wheel and attain at last to the ecstasy of union with God.
Russell, Bertrand
A History Of Western Philosophy
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