Will Towne

“But the truth is that I am a pessimist… except when writing about pessimism. I’ve managed to make pessimism a form of therapy.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“A bit of philosophizing leads to a wonderment of life. A lot of philosophizing leads to a contempt of it.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation

“In order to prove there’s free will, you have to show that some behavior just happened out of thin air in the sense of considering all these biological precursors. It may be possible to sidestep that with some subtle philosophical arguments, but you can’t with anything known to science.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

“The last word of philosophy is loneliness.”
― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation