Bernard Beckett

I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function…

— Bernard Beckett

I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins,…

— Bernard Beckett

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

— Bernard Beckett

I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only…

— Bernard Beckett

“I have learned to value the things others are reluctant to give.”

— Bernard Beckett

I write with teenagers in mind.

— Bernard Beckett

I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function…

— Bernard Beckett

The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill…

— Bernard Beckett

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

— Bernard Beckett

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

— Bernard Beckett

I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who…

— Bernard Beckett

In this environment it was a simple matter for The Republic to maintain its structure. People did as they were told because…

— Bernard Beckett

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

— Bernard Beckett

I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.

— Bernard Beckett

The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.

— Bernard Beckett

I can't see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who…

— Bernard Beckett

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

— Bernard Beckett

“I am not a machine. For what can a machine know of the smell of wet grass in the morning, or the…

— Bernard Beckett

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

— Bernard Beckett

“The puzzle of time, the mystery of creation, the problem of evil, the enigma of knowledge, the state of soul, the vexations…

— Bernard Beckett

“Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems…

— Bernard Beckett

“You're still just silicon," he said, as he turned the page. "And you're just carbon," Art persevered. "Since when has the periodic…

— Bernard Beckett

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

— Bernard Beckett

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

— Bernard Beckett