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Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea. ↗


— Bernard Beckett


#science-fiction #science

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy. ↗


— B.F. Skinner


#philosophy #science #science

With subjectivism in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand... ↗


— Bertrand Russell


#anarchism

Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras. ↗


— Herman Melville


#historical #philosophy #historical

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things. ↗


— Friedrich Nietzsche


#insightful #philosophy #insight

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart. ↗


— Noah Levine


#philosophy #politics #music

If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence. ↗


— Linda Yezak


#writing-craft #writing-philosophy #writing-craft

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. ↗


— Edith Sitwell


#emotion #philosophy #innocence

A politician lost an argument; he went on a rampage with his fists pointed towards the sky—a move which amounts to a search for a new self. ↗


— Duop Chak Wuol


#political-philosophy #politics #politicians

A self-proclaimed politician lost an argument; he went on a rampage with his fists pointed towards the sky—a move which amounts to a search for a new self. ↗


— Duop Chak Wuol


#political-philosophy #politics #politicians






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