The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.
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.
- Bernard Beckett
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host. - Bernard Beckett
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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…
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.
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself. - Bernard Beckett
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
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…
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 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…
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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