Ryan

“All fiction that does not violate the laws of physics is fact.”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

“Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

“Only recently the notion came to me of swimming upstream, against the tide of decay and degradation, the slow and subtle ebbing away of order; the way that every day in every way you and I are getting worse, losing ground, memory, teeth, and the battle just to stay as we are, let alone get better.”
― Vincent Deary, How We Are

“Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus