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Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You can’t leak your hidden intentions if you don’t think they are your intentions. According to his theory of self-deception, the conscious mind sometimes hides the truth from itself the better to hide it from others. But the truth is useful, so it should be registered somewhere in the mind, walled off from the parts that interact with other people.
 
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
 
Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.
 
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
 
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
 
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
 
Theory is when we know everything but nothing works. Praxis is when everything works but we do not know why. We always end up by combining theory with praxis: nothing works and we do not know why.
 
The means have murdered the end.
 
Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.
 
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity
 
The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.
 
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
 
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
 
To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world - to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish - is antithetical to tolerance as moderates currently conceive it. But we can no longer afford the luxury of such political correctness. We must finally recognize the price we are paying to maintain the iconography of our ignorance.
 
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
 
The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage. It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
 
Information is a difference that makes a difference.
 
Depression’s defining symptom is anhedonia, the inability to feel, anticipate, or pursue pleasure. Chronic stress depletes the mesolimbic system of dopamine, generating anhedonia. The link between childhood adversity and adult depression involves both organizational effects on the developing mesolimbic system and elevated adult glucocorticoid levels, which can deplete dopamine.
 
What a man says drunk he has thought sober. -- Flemish proverb
 
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
 
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