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No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will…
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Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long…
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The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek…
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Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,
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The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them.…
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Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.
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Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
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That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
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A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down…
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not…
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In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if…
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Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.
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The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek…
— Philip K. Dick
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
— Karl Jaspers
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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable,…
— Anne Carson
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Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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