"Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know."

-- Ted Chiang

#Philosophical Quotes #Mean Quotes #Reality Quotes

“To maintain good health requires good nutrition and a healthy dose of exercise.”

Source : Erie Times, SportsWeek, March 3, 1986.
“I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.”
“The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.”
“Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.”

Source : "The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1998.
“Never trust a man in red trousers”
“We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.”
“We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.”
“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”

Source : "Critics slam MSNBC host’s claim that kids belong to community, not parents" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2013.

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