
“I stand corrected. Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell”
Source: Bite Club
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“I stand corrected. Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell”
Source: Bite Club
“Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.”
Richard of Gloucester, Act V, scene vi.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
Twelve Virtues Of Rationality http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues
Context: Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts. If the iron approaches your face, and you believe it is hot, and it is cool, the Way opposes your fear. If the iron approaches your face, and you believe it is cool, and it is hot, the Way opposes your calm. Evaluate your beliefs first and then arrive at your emotions. Let yourself say: “If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.”
“People are not to be blamed for their doubts, but that they make no effort to arrive at the truth.”
Source: The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908), Ch. XXXIV