"We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Judging Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.”
“Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.”
“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
“The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.”
“The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.”
“Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.”
“To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.”
“Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether there is objective chance or only uncertainty, whether physics can explain chemical change, whether our behavior is fully determined by our genomes, whether ideation can change the brain, or whether either the economy or ideas are the ultimate roots of the social.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de

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