"Many people can absorb any insult or disagreement as long as there is a chorus behind them echoing their POV. The same person cannot stand alone against even mild disagreement. To a person raised on social media, having to debate, rather than signal, feels like being abused."
- Shay Hill
"We used to build a stone church for the benefit of a few dozen people. Now we often won’t even write a blog post unless 10-thousand will see it"
- Shay Hill
"There is something essential about getting bored together with friends."
- Shay Hill
"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite."
- Karl Popper
"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."
- Karl Popper
"No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it."
- Karl Popper
"True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it."
- Karl Popper
"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude."
- Karl Popper
"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."
- Karl Popper
"Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification."