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You’ve already been there Lucretius, the Roman poet who brought Epicurus’s ideas to his later audience, articulates this argument.
Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
- John Gray, as quoted by Tim Carpenter in To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die
Thom Wong • Being Yourself (S2E3)
He repeats many times the contention that what appears to us as necessary connection among objects is really only connection among the ideas of those objects: the mind is determined by custom, and “ ’tis this impression, or determination, which affords me the idea of necessity.”
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
If you really thought life would never end, he argues, then nothing could ever genuinely matter, because you’d never be faced with having to decide whether or not to use a portion of your precious life on something. ‘If I believed that my life would last forever,’ Hägglund writes, ‘I could never take my life to be at stake, and I would never be sei
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God – supposing there is a God – is on the gallows with them, twisting on the rope. It has to be one or the other. God is either dead or in some sense helpless.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Using modern terminology, we may say: Ideas of unperceived things or occurrences can always be defined in terms of perceived things or occurrences, and therefore, by substituting the definition for the term defined, we can always state what we know empirically without introducing any unperceived things or occurrences. As regards our present problem
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logic of disagreement.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
The limitation to Weil’s imagination is, paradoxically, its seeming limitlessness. Her ability to plumb the human condition runs so deep that it risks losing those of us who remain near the surface of things.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
“Even if we can make sense of the idea of a timeless consciousness, such a prospect clearly will not be me,” Collins writes. He continues: No action, no thought, no intentions, aspirations, or memories can be possible without time. With no time to remember anything, let alone to have new experiences, it would be impossible to have any sense of pers
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