#log

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#date #easily #end #invention #man

I would really love to go on an archaeological dig. ↗

— Megan Fox

#dig #go #i #love #really

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money. ↗

— Vicente Fox

#believe #capital #dedicate #developing #development

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences. ↗

— John Frame

#although #among #been #churches #consciences

If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off. ↗

— Charles Fried

#committed #courts #ideologically #law #off

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist? ↗

— Umberto Eco

#chaos #creation #divine-will #omnipotence #theology

The new science will be a manifestation of ancient technologies. It will come in sudden, humans will experience technological shock. ↗

— Toba Beta

#technological-shock #experience

A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth! ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#biology #god-delusion #science #intelligence

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters. ↗

— Samuel Fuller

#characters #counter #counters #dialogue #eye

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature. ↗

— Madeline Miller

#war #change