RichardKennaway comments on Rationality quotes: September 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 01 September 2010 07:30:30AM 17 points [-]

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

Comment author: simplicio 29 September 2010 01:01:46PM 1 point [-]

Yup. Although insofar as opinions may be objectively right, we would be wise not to fetishize originality too much.