"Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness."

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Source : "Consciousness and Language". Book by John Searle, 2002.

John Searle

#Materialism Quotes #Awareness Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.”
“You become an artist to upset your family.”

Source : "Nach uns die Malflut! Theoretische Poesien". Book by Gunter Brus (p. 135), 2003.
“All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!”
“The Lord will grant to any honest person who earnestly seeks to know the truth one manifestation by the Holy Ghost; but he is not entitled to repeated manifestations. After such a revelation is given, he is to act, for the Holy Ghost cannot be appealed to for continued manifestations until after baptism and the gift has been bestowed.”
“We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.”
“Cows provide approx 100 million tonnes of dry dung a year costing Rs 5000 crores which saves 50 million tonnes of firewood which again means that many trees saved and more environmental damage prevented. It is calculated that if these 73 million animals were to be replaced, we would need 7.3 million tractors at the cost of 2.5 lac each which would amount to an investment of 180,000 crores. In addition 2 crore, 37 lakh and 50 thousand tonnes of diesel which would mean another 57,000 crore rupees. This is how much we owe these animals, and this is what we stand to lose by killing them.”
“I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.”

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