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.
BERNARD BECKETTUnable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.
More Bernard Beckett Quotes
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I write with teenagers in mind.
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Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. Its very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover Gods great plan.
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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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And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.
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The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.
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Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
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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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Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
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Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.
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This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.
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A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
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Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
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