Curtis Yarvin

1973– · American far-right political theorist and computer scientist

Topics: learning, life, simplicity

• Conflict is an inescapable part of life. Uncertainty is not.

  — Curtis Yarvin

• A good test for whether or not anything should continue to exist: if it didn't exist, would anyone invent it?

  — Curtis Yarvin

• A good test for getting rid of anything is: if we didn't have this, would we need it?

  — Curtis Yarvin

• You think you're charging the matador, but you're charging the cape.

  — Curtis Yarvin

• Power corrupts not by repression, but by seduction.

  — Curtis Yarvin

• History is a branch of literature, not a field of science.

  — Curtis Yarvin

• Replacing your own ideology is a lot like do-it-yourself brain surgery.

  — Curtis Yarvin

• It is much easier to delude others if at the same time you delude yourself.

  — Curtis Yarvin

• In fact, rationalism is to reason as scientism is to science.

  — Curtis Yarvin

• [M]ost of the advances in Western scientific history, contrary to popular belief, occurred when scientists were not servants of the state.

  — Curtis Yarvin