Self Reference Quotes

“Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

“Certain ideas overwhelm us by their simplicity.”
― V.S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men

“i have a body
and I am grateful,
as I find it to be a very useful instrument
for expressing love, strength, flexibility, grace
but, I am not my body...”
― Kate Mullane Robertson

“This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusions.”
― David Deutsch

“English: "We collaborate on forming of the world that collaborates on forming us, we are the world's face that completes itself."

Česky: „Spoluutváříme svět, který nás spoluutváří,
jsme jeho tváří, která sama sebe dotváří.”
― Sebastián Wortys

“Websites that collect quotes are full of mistakes and never check original sources”
― Randall Munroe

“But however desirable an evolutionary framework for a history of knowledge may be, the important questions is whether it is actually possible to recognize an evolutionary logic in the historical records - without imposing it by an exaggerated analogy with biology and without ascending to a level of abstraction where all cats become gray. I believe that the historical findings examined in the preceding chapters point in such a direction, in particular the long-term, cumulative aspects of knowledge development, its dependence on contingent societal contexts, and the profound transformations of the architecture of knowledge.
Examples are the emergence of new systems of knowledge from a reorganization of preceding systems; the sedimentation and plateau-building processes of knowledge economies; the transformation of contingent circumstances and challenges into internal conditions for the further development of knowledge systems, accounting for the path dependency and layered structure of this development; and the feedback mechanisms that may arise between knowledge economies and knowledge systems, giving rise to the emergence of new epistemic communities.
Just like the evolution of life, knowledge development has direction but us not globally uniform. It is neither deterministic nor teleological. Chance events may have long-term effects by becoming incorporated into the developmental process. Knowledge development is self-referential insofar as it contributes to shaping its own environment by processes of sedimentation and plateau formation corresponding to niche construction in biology. It is also a layered process, in the sense that later forms of knowledge do not necessarily replace earlier ones. External representations shape the long-term transmission of knowledge, ensuring its continuity, while their exploration under different circumstances opens up possibilities for variation and change.”
― Jürgen Renn, The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene

“The FAYZ wall, the impenetrable, impermeable, eye-baffling barrier that defined the boundaries of the FAYZ, glowed almost imperceptibly. Not even a glow, really, a suggestion of translucence. Grey and blank.”
― Michael Grant

“Who am I to add a quote??”
― Zeeshan Mahmud