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Ross McPherson
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There are at least three different arrows of time. First, there is the thermodynamic arrow of time, the direction of time in which disorder or entropy increases. Then, there is the psychological arrow of time. This is the direction in which
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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“The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion. And yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it is that above all which prevents us thinking about ourselves and leads is imperceptibly to destruction. But for that we should be bored, and boredom would drive us to seek some more solid means of escape, but diversion passes our time and brings us imperceptibly to our death.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
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