philosophy

"Not a good book. It attempts to take a complex subject and make it assessable to the layman with cartoons, and in this effort it fails. Moreover, the authors often take biased stances, and while I agree with them for the most part it nonetheless detracts from any scholarly offerings in which they wish to partake."

"If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it."

"There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them."

"Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown."

"If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air."

"Am I a prisoner of my thoughts?Am I a prisoner of my societal conformity?Who am I?How conscious am I?Am I conscious or obnoxious?"

"Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner."

"No man was ever wise by chance"

"Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?"

"Her maktul katilinde yaşamaya devam eder."

"We played for about half an hour before I realized we were actually playing two different games. What I’d thought of as ludo was actually a game called gin rummy, and what Warren was playing seemed to be a mixture of craps and table tennis. Once we started playing by one consistent set of rules, though, the fun was really over."

"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."

"You know, sometimes I think this is just not it,” he said, his glasses flashing from the early night’s light. He turned toward me in a thoughtful pause.“You know what I mean, Tom?” he asked. “It’s just not."

"Time Traveler's Ennui The future ain't what it use to be."

"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins"for real things."

"It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust."

"The pianokeys are black and whitebut they sound like a million colors in your mind"

"For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending."

"The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense."

"Fame [10w] Fame has a funny way of rewriting your entire past."