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human belief systems are good at absorbing contradictions into their thinking.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
the true aim of life is maximum self-expression.
Mitch Horowitz • Cosmic Habit Force: How to Discover and Use Nature’s Superpower

The Straussian Moment
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The freedom to do what one intends, and not to do otherwise, is no less valuable than it ever was.
Sam Harris • Free Will
there is no need to go outside the universe and identify a supernatural agent to account for our appearance in it, since there are good, entirely natural explanations available.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Good should be done for its own sake and not because it is commanded by some version of religion’s God, especially since we know how often in the past religion’s God has been used for evil purposes.