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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It's pretty cool to see.

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[-] ansorca@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Dune

Now, what's the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, floating dragon who spits heatless fire and no dragon at all? If there's no way to disprove my contention, no conceivable experiment that would count against it, what does it mean to say that my dragon exists? Your inability to invalidate my hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder. What I'm asking you to do comes down to believing, in the absence of evidence, on my say-so.

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago

FYI formatting those quotes as code makes them really hard to read, at least for me--the lines don't break, so I have to scroll the text to the right to get it to be visible. You'd probably be better off with a blockquote,

which would look more like this. That's done with a > at the start of the line

[-] ansorca@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

That's how they got after copy-pasting them. Fixed.

this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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