Comment by edolet on Rationality Quotes - August 2009 · 2009-08-06T22:27:59.804Z · LW · GW

"Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves. They always think of their own case as soon as any remark is made, and their whole attention is engrossed and absorbed by the merest chance reference to anything which affects them personally, be it never so remote: with the result that they have no power left for forming an objective view of things, should the conversation take that turn; neither can they admit any validity in arguments which tell against their interest or their vanity."

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Comment by edolet on Rationality Quotes - August 2009 · 2009-08-06T22:19:25.407Z · LW · GW

"Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown."

~ Pietro Aretino