/lit/ - Literature

>>3476722

Nigger don't make me post that nasty ass letter I sent to Scientific American Mind when they printed that horseshit article on free will

>>3413938

Here's a few others just out of curiosity

>How limited and inadequate the normal human intellect is and how slight is clearness of consciousness, can be gathered from the fact that, in spite of the ephemeral brevity of man’s life that is cast into the stream of endless time, of the precarious nature of our existence, of the numberless mysteries that everywhere obtrude, of the significant character of so many phenomena, and of the utter inadequacy of life; that, in spite of this, not all philosophize constantly and unremittingly; in fact, not even many, or some, or perhaps only a few; no, only here and there, only the absolute exceptions philosophize.

>The most obvious token of an estrangement of views between two men is that both inject a certain irony into their remarks but neither feels the irony of it.

>I know quite well than anyone would regard me as mad if I seriously assured him that the cat, playing just now in the yard, is still the same one that did the same jumps and tricks three hundred years ago; but I also know that it is much more absurd to believe that the cat of today is through and through and fundamentally an entirely different one from the cat of three hundred years ago.