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But the fact that two thousand words in a scientific journal could provoke so much hostility seemed to speak volumes about our approach to the subject of drug harms. To understand why people objected so strongly to the suggestion that ...more
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Erwin Schrödinger
“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
Erwin Schrödinger

Raoul Vaneigem
“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.”
Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life

Raymond Tallis
“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.”
Raymond Tallis, Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity

Arthur Schopenhauer
“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.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

Giacomo Leopardi
“The certain, lonely knowledge [120] that everything is vain but grief.”
Giacomo Leopardi, Canti

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