"Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works."

-- Samuel Scheffler

#Philosophical Quotes #Mind Quotes #Natural Quotes

“Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.”
“Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.”
“Freedom means the right to be stupid.”
“No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs-- or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Keep laughing. As long as you’re laughing you still have hope.”
“Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.”
“If somebody is acting maladjusted - which means not happy to be at Rikers - the protocol, as I understand it and have been told by COs unofficially or officially, is to pepper spray that individual to sedate them.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.”

Source : "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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