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

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

- 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

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

- Simon Blackburn