"When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy."

-- I. J. Good

#Simplicity Quotes #Brain Quotes #Lobotomy Quotes

“No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness”
“I am happy to accept that badge of ambivalence if that means some progress in dismantling this false opposition: writers boldly using their privileges of free speech in the morally superior West versus pathetic wimps in repressive countries we don't like.”
“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
“It's kind of like when a clock battery runs down. The hour and minute hands don't disappear, but they don't keep ticking either. They freeze on the last minute they measured.”
“The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.”
“The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.”
“In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy, a curiosity that was too sharp to be crushed immediately, a lack of order in his ideas, a weakening of his spiritual boundaries, which were promptly twisted, an excessive passion for running along forked roads and wearying of the path as soon as he had started on it, mental indigestion demanding varied dishes, quickly tiring of the foods he desired, digesting almost all, but badly, was his state.”
“I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.”

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