rationality

You can't just pick out a Cause like that because you feel you need a hobby. Go looking for a "good cause", and your mind will just fill in a standard cliche. Learn how to multiply, and perhaps you will recognize a drastically important cause when you see one.

But if you have a cause like that, it is right and proper to wield your rationality in its... See more

Now there are those who say: "How dare you suggest that anything should be valued more than Truth? Must not a rationalist love Truth more than mere usefulness?"

Forget for a moment what would have happened historically to someone like that—that people in pretty much that frame of mind defended the Bible because they loved Truth more than mere... See more

Historically speaking, science won because it displayed greater raw strength in the form of technology, not because science sounded more reasonable . To this very day, magic and scripture still sound more reasonable to untrained ears than science.

Power comes from having something to protect.

The Art must have a purpose other than itself, or it collapses into infinite recursion.