Philosophy - Wed, Aug 12, 2020
Philosophy Quotes Archive
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
- -Carl Sagan
"It’s from that position, a position outside the cultural operating system, that we can begin to ask real questions about what does it mean to be human, what kind of circumstance are we caught in, and what kind of structures, if any, can we put in place to assuage the plan and accentuate the glory and the wonder that lurks, waiting for us, in this very narrow slice of time between the birth canal and the yawning grave.”
- -Terence McKenna
"We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
- -Alan Watts