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Top 5 Aforismos de la Semana

"Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

"Surprises are things that you not only didn't know, but that contradict things you thought you knew. And so they're the most valuable sort of fact you can get. They're like a food that's not merely healthy, but counteracts the unhealthy effects of things you've already eaten."
-- Paul Graham

"Faced with the choice of changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

"I'd rather live with a good question than a bad answer." -- Aryeh Frimer

"Before you can get to the end of this paragraph, another person will probably die because of what someone else believes about God." -- Sam Harris, The End of Faith

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