"To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world"

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Source : Jim Holt (2012). “Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer”, p.96, Profile Books

Jim Holt

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“People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.”
“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”
“I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.”

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“Do you know him well?" I ask.I am too curious; I always have been. "Everyone knows Four," she says. "We were initiates together.I was bad at fighting,so he taught me every night after everyone was asleep." She scratches the back of her neck, her expression suddenly serious. "Nice of him." She gets up and stands behind the members sitting in the doorway. In a second, her serious expression is gone,but I still feel rattled by what she said, half confused by the idea of Four being "nice" and half wanting to punch her for no apparent reason.”
“Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.”
“If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.”
“I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience."”
“Yoga is the best thing for your sex life. It keeps you limber in all kinds of ways. It teaches you to love your body and your partner's body. But more than anything, it keeps your mind liquid, and nothing's sexier than that.”

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