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Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #inanimate #inanimate-objects #interpretation #literature

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.


Howard Pattee


#philosophy #science #systems #nature

Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial-notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.


Harry G. Frankfurt


#nature

It is not the reverence for words, but for their meaning that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature.


Felix Alba-Juez


#science #nature

we are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of true romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. i do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. this is what makes your self-respect so important, and i don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness


William S Burroughs


#humans #people #philosophy #respect

On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is. On the one hand, all cultures are equally deserving of respect; on the other, Western culture is uniquely destructive and bad. Values are subjective--but sexism and racism are really evil. Technology is bad and destructive--and it is unfair that some people have more technology than others. Tolerance is good and dominance is bad--but when postmodernists come to power, political correctness follows.


Stephen Hicks


#respect

There is nothing more soul destroying than respectable selfishness


Stan Almendro


#respect

The blind lead the blind; we will come to sea.


Sumanth Bharadwaj


#humor #life #love #philosophy #science

[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.


Susan Elizabeth Phillips


#susan-elizabeth-phillips #romantic

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?


Stephen Hawking


#science #search-for-meaning #science