“Everything is a tale… What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.”
– Andreas Corelli in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Angel’s Game, Act One: “City of [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Philosophy’
July 22, 2009
Andreas Corelli on Narratives
July 22, 2009
Francisco d’Anconia on Contradictions
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
– Francisco d’Anconia in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Part I, Chapter VII
July 10, 2009
Floyd Ferris on Genius
“Genius is a superstition… There’s no such thing as the intellect. A man’s brain is a social product. A sum of influences that he’s picked up from those around him. Nobody invents anything, he merely reflects what’s floating in the social atmosphere. A genius is an intellectual scavenger and a greedy hoarder of the ideas [...]
July 10, 2009
Francisco d’Anconia on the Need to Think
“Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.”
– Francisco d’Anconia in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Part II, Chapter II
July 10, 2009
Robert Stadler on People
“Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They understand nothing else. We cannot expect their [...]
August 1, 2007
Jostein Gaarder on Philosophy
“The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.”
– Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World, “The Top Hat”
July 24, 2007
Stephen Dempster on Postmodernism
“The error of modernism is ‘objectivism’, that is, the idea that individual subjects can attain the entire, value-free, truth when examining an object — they can see it as it really is; while the error of postmodernism is ’subjectivism’, the idea that, because observers are never value-free or objective, they see the object according to [...]
