February 2012
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“I can prove now, for instance, that two human hands exist. How? By holding up my...”
– G.E. Moore, Proof of an External World
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“The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely...”
– 1984, George Orwell
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“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Anonymous asked: I'd wager that you've been asked this before, but what books would you most recommend to those with an interest in philosophy and thinking in general?
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“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for...”
– Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
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“The totality of propositions is language.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Anonymous asked: Do you believe in the Big Bang Theory, and if you do, how do you believe the world will end?
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Anonymous asked: What do you think of the idea of fully-independent (after creation) AI? What defines intelligence? What defines life, even?
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“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”
– David Hume
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“The strongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness”
– Paulo Coelho
Anonymous asked: Hi! I'm a high school student, and I'm still trying to decide what to do with my life. I was just wondering if you could give me some positives and negatives of studying philosophy and pursuing a career in it. Thanks so much!!
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Anonymous asked: Hello! I don't know if someone has already asked you this but... I know the Big Bang origined the Universe but how was created the Big Bang? What was before it?
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“I have seen death, in a tragic long, cruel life. I have lived death.”
– Ahmad Shamloo
Anonymous asked: I'm trying to learn more about the arguments regarding free will vs. determinism - any suggestions? Maybe your own posts from this blog, books, internet articles, etc.?
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“Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of...”
– Ivan Karamazov (The Brothers Karamazov), Fyodor Dostoevsky
WatchColbert on Birth Control
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mdevivo replied to your quote: By all means, marry. If you get a good wife,…
In all fairness, Socrates was a rather ugly fellow. Whoever was kind enough to marry him was well within her rights to express her discontent.
True. But from what I’ve gathered Xanthippe was a very nasty woman.
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“I consider that willingness to criticize Russia and Stalin is the test of...”
– George Orwell, As I Please
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“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you...”
– Socrates
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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid,and dislike the...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.”
– Rene Descartes
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“There is nothing more objective than the laws of arithmetic.”
– Gottlob Frege
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“Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We...”
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
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“‘Wither is God?’ he cried; ‘I will tell you.’ We have killed him — you and I....”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science I-IV (1882)
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“You ever have that feeling where you’re not sure if you’re awake or...”
– The Matrix
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“And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization...”
– Bertrand Russell in “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in...”
– Marcel Proust
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