People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should res… - Sam Harris

People who hold strong convictions without evidence, belong at the margins of our society, not in our halls of power.

If you just focus on the trees swaying outside the window without distraction, you will see your true face.

El falso apoyo es una especie de hurto: roba tiempo, energía y motivación a una persona que podría dedicarlos a algún otro fin.

You have not built your mind. And in moments in which you seem to build it — when you make an effort to change yourself, to acquire knowledge, or to perfect a skill — the only tools at your disposal are those that you have inherited from moments past.

Choices, efforts, intentions, and reasoning influence our behavior — but they are themselves part of a chain of causes that precede conscious awareness and over which we exert no ultimate control. My choices matter — and there are paths toward making wiser ones — but I cannot choose what I choose. And if it ever appears that I do — for instance, after going back and forth between two options — I do not choose to choose what I choose. There is a regress here that always ends in darkness. I must take a first step, or a last one, for reasons that are bound to remain inscrutable.