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Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.)


Alan Sokal


#physics #science #science

The hardest bones, containing the richest marrow, can be conquered only by a united crushing of all the teeth of all dogs. That of course is only a figure of speech and exaggerated; if all teeth were but ready they would not need even to bite, the bones would crack themselves and the marrow would be freely accessible to the feeblest of dogs. If I remain faithful to this metaphor, then the goal of my aims, my questions, my inquiries, appears monstrous, it is true. For I want to compel all dogs thus to assemble together, I want the bones to crack open under the pressure of their collective preparedness, and then I want to dismiss them to the ordinary life they love, while all by myself, quite alone, I lap up the marrow. That sounds monstrous, almost as if I wanted to feed on the marrow, not merely of bone, but of the whole canine race itself. But it is only a metaphor. The marrow that I am discussing here is no food; on the contrary, it is a poison.


Franz Kafka


#philosophy #faith

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much


Blaise Pascal


#life

Life is only a flicker of melted ice.


Dejan Stojanovic


#flicker #ice #life #literature #literature-quotes

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #festive #light #literature #literature-quotes

One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.


Georg Simmel


#sociology #life

To that man of high aim whose body, mind and soul act in correspondence, all secrets of nature become revealed to him. He feels within himself, as every where, that universal life wherein there is no distinction, no sense of separateness, but all around, all bliss, unity and peace.


Virchand Raghavji Gandhi


#famous-quotes #human #incarnation #indian-philsophers #indian-quote

Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e. to stop depending on what other people say. In summary, to be freer to choose our own path in life.


Manuel Toharia-Cortés


#philosophy #science #life

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.


William Butler Yeats


#best #best part #end #exposition #lean

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.


Flannery O'Connor


#church #nihilism #philosophy #theology #logic






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