I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host. - Bernard Beckett
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
- Bernard Beckett
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
Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself. - Bernard Beckett
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern p… - Bernard Beckett
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern p…
Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really won… - Bernard Beckett
Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really won…
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fea… - Bernard Beckett
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fea…
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. - Bernard Beckett
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and … - Bernard Beckett
This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and …
In this environment it was a simple matter for The Republic to maintain its structure. People did as they were told because they were working togethe… - Bernard Beckett
In this environment it was a simple matter for The Republic to maintain its structure. People did as they were told because they were working togethe…
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