Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one’s opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

Art is personal, criticism shouldn’t be.

He turned to her – his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and perfect penitence. Against which Scylla had to brace herself. Against such bravura how...

That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for...

Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation.

From this point of view, science – the real game in town – is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one’s manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form...

If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it.

It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.

His baseline attitude toward humans was that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought. This was...

It’s inimical to be critical without being constructive

The clarity of perception makes reality look as it is.

… the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind...

Never make the mistake of thinking you are alone — or inconsequential. Ignorance is voluntary and confusion is temporary. You see the world as-is, which is more than can be said for the vast populace.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to...