Nic_Smith comments on Rationality Quotes January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nic_Smith 07 January 2010 08:39:18PM *  4 points [-]

"Psychologists tell us everyone automatically gravitates toward that which is pleasurable and pulls away from that which is painful. For many people, thinking is painful." - Leil Lowndes, How to Talk to Anyone

(Given the context, perhaps a bit of a Dark Arts view.)

Comment author: gwern 07 January 2010 09:43:18PM 3 points [-]

"[T]he rule is irrational; for it involves the assumption that wherever A's scribes made a mistake they produced an impossible reading.
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and 3 minutes is a long time."

--A.E Housman, Juvenal (1905), xi

Comment author: gwern 07 January 2010 09:42:35PM 2 points [-] 
 "Could man be drunk forever
With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at morning
And lief lie down of nights.
But men at whiles are sober
And think by fits and starts,
And if they think, they fasten
Their hands upon their hearts."

--A.E. Housman, Last Poems 10

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