Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.
BERNARD BECKETTSuperstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
More Bernard Beckett Quotes
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In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.
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Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
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Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
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I write with teenagers in mind.
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… from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
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I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.
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Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.
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Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.
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A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
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I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.
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The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name.
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The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.
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In the end, living is defined by dying.
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