When the benighted differ with me, it is only natural, for they are benighted. When they do not, it only strengthens my case, for even the benighted agree with me.
Erring
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
—Cunningham
You’re almost certainly completely wrong, so cheer up.
Many of the disorders of the psychology textbooks are quite useful in moderation, and not a few are outright virtues.
A lot of people who don’t believe in God believe in Santa Claus.
Feelings can be every bit as wrong as thoughts.
The great political divide is not between left and right, populist and elitist, or authoritarian and libertarian. It is between people who are consumed by politics and people who are sane.
The in-group and out-group are praised and blamed by the same people for exactly the same policies, and the bulk of American political commentary consists of party flacks pointing this out about the flacks of the other party.
No one who thinks of himself as open-minded can be persuaded otherwise.
If you maintain that IQ has no meaning, I can probably guess your IQ.
Everyone should have one friend whose thought is a digest of fashionable absurdities. It saves no end of time.