{"quotes":[{"text":"I cannot give up on my values and beliefs for the sake of respecting someone else’s values and morals. Because those values explain who am I. I prefer struggling and even dying for what I believe and what I don’t believe. Silence is not respect; it is not condemning brutality and cruelty, and neglecting your own existence as human being. I will be killed and so many others because of standing against the fallacy and misleading notion of religions. They will torture us and cut us in pieces alive and even won’t stop disrespecting our death bodies; that is how these monsters have been governing for hundreds thousands of years.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["beliefs","fallacy","human-being","killing","misleading-notion","morals","respect","respecting","silence","struggling","torture","values"],"id":18759,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"It seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which they are similar than to the ways in which they differ. Asked to assess dissimilarity, they become more concerned with differences than with similarities. In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of dissimilarity, they do the opposite. The relationship one perceives between two entities, then, can vary with the precise form of the question that is asked.","author":"Thomas Gilovich","tags":["brain","fallacy","human-behavior","logic","mind","psychology"],"id":27450,"author_id":"Thomas+Gilovich"},{"text":"The fallacy in Peter's mind was this: he believed his relationship was dependent on his consistency in producing the qualities he thought had earned him the Lord's approval.","author":"Lloyd John Ogilvie","tags":["earn","fallacy","grace"],"id":42688,"author_id":"Lloyd+John+Ogilvie"},{"text":"Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["age","aged","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","belief","beliefs","birth","burial","bury","child","children","cycle","dead","death","die","elder","elders","fallacies","fallacy","funeral","funerals","funny","gone-too-soon","hereafter","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","joke","jokes","kid","kids","life","life-after-death","life-and-death","misbelief","misbeliefs","misconception","misconceptions","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","offspring","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","philosopher","philosophers-cry","philosophic","philosophy","prepare","prepared","quotations","quotes","rest-in-peace","rip","satire","stoic","stoicism","stoics","surprise","surprising","the-elders","the-hereafter","tomb","tombstone","tombstones","unprepared","weep"],"id":54786,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Every barber thinks everybody needs a haircut.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["barber","fallacy","haircut","logic","nonsense","philosophy"],"id":59576,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have burned ourselves. For this rough teacher, I should like, if possible, to substitute a more gentle one. I mean Foresight. For this purpose I shall examine the consequences of certain economical phenomena, by placing in opposition to each other those which are seen, and those which are not seen.","author":"Frédéric Bastiat","tags":["anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","collectivism","economics","fallacy","freedom","government","keynesian","libertarian","liberty","logic","politics","reason","self-knowledge","statism","taxation","theft","unseen","voluntaryism"],"id":72246,"author_id":"Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Bastiat"},{"text":"To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious th.","author":"Fritz Zwicky","tags":["fallacy","god-of-the-gaps","miracle","nature","science","science-vs-religion","serious","thinking","unexplainable","unnecessary","wonder"],"id":98342,"author_id":"Fritz+Zwicky"},{"text":"Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.","author":"G.H. Hardy","tags":["fallacy","math","mathematics","music","stupidity"],"id":99073,"author_id":"G.H.+Hardy"},{"text":"The more intense the belief, the less likely that reason and evidence can dislodge it.","author":"Linda Elder Richard Paul","tags":["belief","critical-thinking","fallacy","reason","thinking"],"id":102369,"author_id":"Linda+Elder+Richard+Paul"},{"text":"A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it is based upon wonder, adventure and hope.","author":"Cyril Norman Hinshelwood","tags":["adventure","certainty","criticism","emotion","fallacy","hope","infallibility","objectivity","science","scientist","truth","wonder"],"id":138057,"author_id":"Cyril+Norman+Hinshelwood"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}