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One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior.

Every single human being is neurologically predisposed to be biased in various walks of life. It is biologically impossible to be absolutely free from all biases, nevertheless, the more a person rigorously trains the self to be rational and conscientious, the more that self becomes strong enough to keep the biases in check, never to let them run rampant over the psyche.

The human brain always concocts biases to aid in the construction of a coherent mental life, exclusively suitable for an individual__ personal needs.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

She realised with every inch of her being that she wanted Freya; she was in love with Freya. Her mind, with its perfectly rational arguments, had list the battle with her heart. She felt it. It was real. The conflict was torture.

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it, which is thinking__hat the mind is one__ only judge of values and one__ only guide of action__hat reason is an absolute that permits no compromise__hat a concession to the irrational invalidates one__ consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality__hat the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind__hat the acceptance of a mystical invention is a wish for the annihilation of existence and, properly, annihilates one__ consciousness.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it__hat no substitute can do your thinking__hat the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything else__nd the alternative is that state of living death which you now see within you and around you, the state of a thing unfit for existence, no longer human and less than animal, a thing that knows nothing but pain and drags itself through its span of years in the agony of unthinking self-destruction.

Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else.

A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.

If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as a spirit, exists beyond death; and therefore only he could do it righteously. For the physical being kills a man and hatefully sends him away, whereas God, the spiritual being, kills a man and lovingly draws him nigh.

Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society__ disapproval.

Knowing you,I became mindless.Having wasted previous wishes,I'm riddled with regretsFeeling you,I became hopeless.Adrift in chasms,I surrender to a caress.Loving you,I became love.My universe became love.Planets rotate on love's axes andapples fall to be near their beloveds.No longer a rationalist, I assert my existence with love. I love, therefore I exist,therefore I love.

Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

Producing laws is not an easier job than producing cars and food, so if the government is incompetent to produce cars or food, why do you expect it to do a good job producing the legal system within which you are then going to produce the cars and the food?