Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through the myth all evidence supports that myth.
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
Being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you...
A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
A problem is simply the difference between what one has and what one wants.
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