DanielVarga comments on Best of Rationality Quotes, 2011 Edition - Less Wrong

29 Post author: DanielVarga 28 December 2011 05:32AM

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Comment author: DanielVarga 30 December 2011 12:25:44PM 6 points [-]

I looked at the Chesterton quotes, they are all very rational, no discrepancy here. Here are the top ones:

Comment author: Will_Newsome 30 December 2011 09:07:19PM 2 points [-]

It might strike people as odd, though, that most or at least half of those quotes come from books arguing for Catholicism. (They're really good! Can LessWrong start a Chesterton-is-awesome meme maybe?)

Comment author: FeatherlessBiped 30 December 2011 10:46:51PM 3 points [-]

Whether Chesterton gets a positive meme or not, he remains awesome! He had a singular talent for focusing a blazing spotlight on various kinds of intellectual foolishness. More remarkably, for someone of such immense literary and intellectual accomplishment, he had an unshakable faith in the good sense of the "average man".