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“Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.”
― Inversions
― Inversions
“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
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“We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions. As Korzybski put it, we see further because we “stand on the shoulders”5 of the previous generation. The danger of such a position is that we can forget to put our own feet on the ground.”
― Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
― Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
“Thing about emergencies,” he said, sounding weary. “Rarely occur when they’d be convenient.”
― The Hydrogen Sonata
― The Hydrogen Sonata
“The point is: what happens in heaven?'
'Unknowable wonderfulness?'
'Nonsense. The answer is nothing. Nothing can happen because if something happens, in fact if something can happen, then it doesn't represent eternity. Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change.'
'If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances - and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse - then you don't have life after death; you just have death.”
― Look to Windward
'Unknowable wonderfulness?'
'Nonsense. The answer is nothing. Nothing can happen because if something happens, in fact if something can happen, then it doesn't represent eternity. Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change.'
'If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances - and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse - then you don't have life after death; you just have death.”
― Look to Windward
Jc’s 2024 Year in Books
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