If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consolin…

- Simon Blackburn

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

- Simon Blackburn

Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by t…

- Simon Blackburn

Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.

- Simon Blackburn

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

- Simon Blackburn

Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.

- Simon Blackburn

Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, …

- Simon Blackburn

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

- Simon Blackburn

This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes the soul outside the sph…

- Simon Blackburn