There's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness.

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.

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

I only want power so I can get books.

Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.