"The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer."

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Source : Robert C. Solomon (1977). “Introducing Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Robert C. Solomon

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“The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.”
“We want to take a hard look at the ease with which wrongdoers can get their hands on deadly weapons and the frequency with which they use them.”

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“I had an opportunity to start going around the world when I was about 18 years old. So, I did. That's one of the things that I was doing.”
“It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself up out of the dark abyss of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.”
“It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love.”
“When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.”
“It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?”
“Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2011). “The Big Time”, p.77, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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