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Perhaps there is a philosophical as well as a clinical lesson here: that in Korsakov’s, or dementia, or other such catastrophes, however great the organic damage and Humean dissolution, there remains the undiminished possibility of
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“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
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“God cannot know anything, will anything or do anything without me. With God I created myself, I created all things, and my hand holds up heaven, earth and all the creatures of the earth. Without me there is nothing.”
― The Revolution of Everyday Life
― The Revolution of Everyday Life
“Once the concept of information is liberated from the idea of a conscious someone being informed and from that of a conscious someone doing the informing, anything is possible. Language bewitches us and we imagine that the problem of consciousness has been solved when in fact is has simply been concealed by verbal legerdemain.”
― Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
― Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
“Within the secular world picture, Neuromania and Darwinitis are the biggest piles of rubbish.”
― Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
― Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
“No little part of the torment of existence lies in this, that Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always coming after us, like a taskmaster with a whip. If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the misery of boredom.”
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
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