Alberto-caeiro Quote by Álvaro de Campos

“Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Our temperaments and their nuances are not above the principles for living in God's Word.”

— Faithful Akpaloo

“Criticizing a person’s ideas about God and the afterlife is thought to be impolitic in a way that criticizing his ideas about physics or…

— Sam Harris

“An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic…

— Alfred Korzybski

“I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.”

— John Green

“Now, in addition to these traits, he defaults to thinking that what he doesn’t see is not there, or what he does not understand…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when…

— Anthony Daniels

“ His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered,…

— George Wilson

“Reason, in other words, is not human self-consciousness opposed to an irrational universe but our participation in the very structure of the universe, its…

— Jens Zimmermann

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

— Muhammad Iqbal

“The universe is not indifferent. It is actively hostile.”

— Steven Pressfield

“Human nature...is more powerfully acted on through imagination and sentiments than through intellect and reason.”

— Christine Kinealy