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Intelligence, then, is the ability to attain goals in the face of obstacles by means of decisions based on rational (truth-obeying) rules. The computer scientists Allen Newell and Herbert Simon fleshed this idea out further by noting that intelligence consists of specifying a goal, assessing the current situation to see how it differs from the goal, and applying a set of operations that reduce the difference. Perhaps reassuringly, by this definition human beings, not just aliens, are intelligent. We have desires, and we pursue them using beliefs, which, when all goes well, are at least approximately or probabilistically true.
 
I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
 
We all perform roles in the theater of everyday life, constantly adjusting our masks to suit the audience.
 
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
 
Good example is half a sermon.
 
To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
 
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?
 
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
 
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
 
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
 
To be objective is to treat others as you treat an object, a corpse to behave with them like an undertaker.
 
Consciousness is the one thing in this universe that cannot be an illusion.
 
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
 
Masturbation is having sex with someone you love.
 
Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
 
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.
 
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
 
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
 
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
 
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
 
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