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“Nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“5.6 The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
5.61 Logic fills the world: the limits of the world are also its limits.
We cannot therefore say in logic: This and this there is in the world, that there is not.
For that would apparently presuppose that we exclude certain possibilities, and this cannot be the case since otherwise logic must get outside the limits of the world : that is, if it could consider these limits from the other side also.
What we cannot think, that we cannot think: we cannot therefore say what we cannot think.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.

The riddle does not exist.

If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“I could become a businessman and run some big corporation, I'd scramble and maneuver until I was at the top of everything and what would I have? Nothing.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“A picnic. Picture a forest, a country road, a meadow. Cars drive off the country road into the meadow, a group of young people get out carrying bottles, baskets of food, transistor radios, and cameras. They light fires, pitch tents, turn on the music. In the morning they leave. The animals, birds, and insects that watched in horror through the long night creep out from their hiding places. And what do they see? Old spark plugs and old filters strewn around... Rags, burnt-out bulbs, and a monkey wrench left behind... And of course, the usual mess—apple cores, candy wrappers, charred remains of the campfire, cans, bottles, somebody’s handkerchief, somebody’s penknife, torn newspapers, coins, faded flowers picked in another meadow.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

“a scattering of schizophrenic first worlders who have long ago burned their brains to ash in the radiant heat of their own imaginings”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“Mais Colin ne savait pas, il courait, il avait peur, pourquoi ça ne suffit pas de toujours rester ensemble, il faut encore qu’on ait peur, peut-être est-ce un accident, une auto l’a écrasée, elle serait sur son lit, je ne pourrais la voir, ils m’empêcheraient d’entrer, mais vous croyez donc peut-être que j’ai peur de ma Chloé, je la verrai malgré vous, mais non, Colin, n’entre pas. Elle est peut-être blessée, seulement, alors, il n’y aura rien du tout, demain, nous irons ensemble au Bois, pour revoir le banc, j’avais sa main dans la mienne et ses cheveux près des miens, son parfum sur l’oreiller. Je prends toujours son oreiller, nous nous battrons encore le soir, le mien, elle le trouve trop bourré, il reste tout rond sous sa tête, et moi, je le reprends après, il sent l’odeur de ses cheveux.”
― Boris Vian, L'écume des jours

“To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him. ”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Many of us shrink from judicial execution of even the most horrible human criminals, while we cheerfully countenance the shooting without trial of fairly mild animal pests. Indeed we kill members of other harmless species as a means of recreation and amusement. A human foetus, with no more human feeling than an amoeba, enjoys a reverence and legal protection far in excess of those granted to an adult chimpanzee. Yet the chimp feels and thinks and — according to recent experimental evidence — may even be capable of learning a form of human language.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“in Parsifal: "You see, my son, here time turns into space.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon Stone I realized (this came years after the first realization) that another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“Maybe it's you fuckers," Fred said, "who're seeing the universe backward, like in a mirror. Maybe I see it right.”
― Philip K. Dick

“ Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning.”
― Mr. Nobody

“This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“PROBLEMS CANNOT BE SOLVED AT THE SAME LEVEL OF AWARENESS THAT CREATED THEM. –ALBERT EINSTEIN”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“You said it was colorful. What changed?"
"I don't know. Maybe nothing. I just— I don't actually remember the dreams when I wake up any more."
"So how do you know you still have them?" Pag asked.
Fuck it I thought, and tipped back the last of my pint in a single gulp. "I know."
"How?"
I frowned, taken aback. I had to think for a few moments before I remembered.
"I wake up smiling," I said.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“Art can be thought of as a form of visual foreplay before the climax.”
― V.S. Ramachandran

“Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“Hernhutter, înțelept, îl aprobă și dădu drept exemplu existența umană: nimeni nu înțelege nimic și tocmai de aceea o acceptă ca pe un lucru firesc.”
― Johan Daisne

“De-a lungul existenței am ajuns la mai multe opinii datorită profesiei mele, dar de fiecare dată mă simțeam ca un copil în fața unui ”lego”. Știți că aceste jocuri de construcții sunt însoțite de un carnețel de modele și simțeam mereu o satisfacție copilărească să copiez cât mai fidel posibil figurile, în același timp propuse, dar și hotărâte dinainte. Cu toate acestea, carnețelul de tipare, ca și viața, continua totodată să-mi sugereze și alte posibilități care ținteau mai departe. Este ceea ce n-am încetat niciodată să caut în jurul meu, în munca mea de zi cu zi și nici mai târziu la bătrânețe, atunci când n-am mai avut acces la construcțiile obișnuite. [...] Din păcate, problema insurmontabilă era că nu puteam renunța la piesele jocului, căci constituiau singura materie primă de care dispune omul dornic să construiască. Ele sunt însă astfel concepute - având în vedere însăși structura lor - încât să nu le poți folosi decât pentru modelele din carnețel, chiar și atunci când nu le mai ai în față.”
― Johan Daisne, De trein der traagheid

“Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.”
― J M Barrie, Peter Pan

“...Gândeşte-te la mine ca la o stea desprinsă din tine şi dusă în întunericul fără fund...”
― Ionel Teodoreanu, Lorelei

“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym