Rationality Quotes December 2014

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Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are:

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Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote from Less Wrong itself, HPMoR, Eliezer Yudkowsky, or Robin Hanson. If you'd like to revive an old quote from one of those sources, please do so here.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.
Provide sufficient information (URL, title, date, page number, etc.) to enable a reader to find the place where you read the quote, or its original source if available. Do not quote with only a name.

Chesterton was talking about Neoreaction, right?

ETA: A note of clarification for those in need of it: I am not actually claiming that Chesterton was talking about Neoreaction.

What Chesterton was actually talking about was a reaction against liberal Protestantism in favour of more traditional Catholicism (represented e.g. by the "Oxford Movement" in the Church of England), against a prevailing tide in the direction of greater liberalism within Christianity and greater skepticism about Christianity.

So: not literally neoreaction, obviously, but something with a thing or two in common with neoreaction.

If RichardKennaway's meaning is "ha ha, Azathoth123 is using this as support for a neoreactionary view, when in fact ... (read more)

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