Philosophy Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy.”

“And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star they won’t tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they’re old enough to bear it and when they learn they’ll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed”

“Despite the business and auto-rickshaws and bantering Bengalis just beyond his brown front door, Sanjit cultivates a distinct learning environment and energy, one created and galvanized above the tile floors, within the thin walls, below the imperative ceiling fans, and embraced by books.”

“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.”

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”

“I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.”

“A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.”

“Man, in his blindness, is quite satisfied with himself, but heartily dislikes the circumstances and situations of his life. He feels this way, not knowing that the cause of his displeasure lies not in the condition nor the person with whom he is displeased, but in his very self he likes so much. Not realizing that “he surrounds himself with the true image of himself” and that” what he is, that only he can see,” he is shocked when he discovers that it has always been his own deceitfulness that made him suspicious of others…”