Physicalism Quotes

“When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a history; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing up of many contrivances, each useful to the possessor, nearly in the same way as when we look at any great mechanical invention as the summing up of the labour, the experience, the reason, and even the blunders of numerous workmen; when we thus view each organic being, how far more interesting, I speak from experience, will the study of natural history become!”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“The term physical is just kinda like an honorific word, kinda like the word 'real' when we say 'the real truth'. It doesn't add anything, it just says 'this is serious truth'. So to say that something is 'physical' today just means 'you gotta take this seriously'.”
― Noam Chomsky

“My plate is full; I dig that. And I can't be everywhere all the time, but my mind, heart and spirit has no bounds.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort to move certain kinds of psychological distress into the biomedical realm.”
― Carl Elliott

“Anomalies essentially prove that the impossible is indeed possible.”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“Why should or how could any of our thoughts be real or beliefs be true if they really were the mere product of inexplicable and mostly random movements of atoms in our brains?”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“The fulness of our experience is not something divisible. We don’t take-in the Sistine Chapel by examining single brush-strokes. The sensation of love isn’t experienced by understanding its chemicals. There is no mathematical formula that results in happiness; no set of principles to avoid despair. We may inhabit the physical world, a world that can be reduced to atoms and equations, but our life is something transcendent. This much, we cannot deny.”
― Tanner Cook, Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian