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The world, her own world, was tinted balefully, and the possibility of ever one day crossing back to ordinary human interaction seemed a laughable, hopeless abstraction.
“The soul began as unquestionably real and the self ended as arguably a fiction.”
― The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity
― The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity
“The works and customs of mankind do not seem to be very suitable material to which to apply scientific induction.”
― Computing machinery and intelligence
― Computing machinery and intelligence
“It is not possible to produce a set of rules purporting to describe what a man should do in every conceivable set of circumstances.”
― Computing machinery and intelligence
― Computing machinery and intelligence
“it can be mortally dangerous to be yourself, and you should exercise extreme social caution at all times.”
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“if you worry that much about what other people think, if you're unhappy whenever other people don't picture you exactly the same way you picture yourself, that's already dooming yourself to always be unhappy. No one ever thinks of us just the same way we think of ourselves.”
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