January 2012
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an...
– Jean Genet (via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)
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The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending...
– Dave Barry
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Give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day. Give him a religion and...
– Anonymous
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Man is the microcosm: I am my world.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two...
– Carl Sagan — Skeptical Inquirer
There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
– Camus, Notebooks (1942-1951)
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western...
– Douglas Adams — The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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What is a belief? How does it originate? Every belief is a...
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Weakness of the will: that is a metaphor that can prove misleading. For there is...
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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How did the exhausted come to make the laws about values? How did those come to...
– Friedrich Nietzsche
I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.
– Lewis Carrrol, Alice in Wonderland (via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)
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When I visited Richard Dawkins, we talked about the possibility that natural...
– Steve Olson and Greg Graffin — Anarchy Evolution
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A “paradox” is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of...
– Richard Feynman
The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty,...
– Richard Feynman
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When a new biological structure or mechanism is discovered, evolutionary...
– Steve Olson & Greg Graffin — Anarchy Evolution
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It was just a little more than a century and a half ago when Charles Darwin and...
– Steve Olson & Greg Graffin — Anarchy Evolution
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This brief overview of Bad Religion’s origins can’t help but sound familiar to...
– Steve Olson & Greg Graffin — Anarchy Evolution
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I still believe that everyone needs to have at least a cursory understanding of...
– Steve Olson & Greg Graffin — Anarchy Evolution
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Many religious people, for example, believe that without religion there can be...
– Steve Olson & Greg Graffin — Anarchy Evolution
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Instead of finding time to write, allot time to write. Prolific writers make a...
– Paul J. Silvia — How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
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Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is...
– Ralph Keyes
“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect...
– Chuck Palahniuk, American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist, Survivor, W. W. Norton, 1999.
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See also: ☞ ‘To understand is to perceive patterns’
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I, a universe of atoms, am an atom in the universe.
– Richard Feynman (via terramantra)
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
– John Locke (via philphys)
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a...
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from...
– Alan Watts
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So...
– Alan Watts (via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)
Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power...
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via suenosenlaluna)
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[Aunger] conceives of technological change as strongly analogous to biological...
– Philip Brey — Technological Design as an Evolutionary Process
A riot is the language of the unheard.
– Martin Luther King, Jr. in an address given in Birmingham, Alabama on December 31, 1963 (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good...
– Gottlob Frege (via philphys)
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By natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the...
– Henri Poincare — Science and Method
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Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of...
– Ronald Fisher
You ask me if there’s any discovery that has changed how we live? It is quantum...
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it...
– Friedrich Nietzche (via cultureofresistance)
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the...
– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (via failuresoffeeling)
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We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.
– Chris Mooney — The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will...
– Bertrand Russell (via philphys)