Words

"A man travels back to biblical times in a hope to learn more about the historical Jesus Of Nazareth,..."

Tue, 31 May 2011 22:25:05 +0930

“A man travels back to biblical times in a hope to learn more about the historical Jesus Of Nazareth, only to end up assuming the role and becoming the same man described in the Bible as Jesus.”

- Predestination Paradox
as written in Michael Moorcock’s
Behold, The Man

"Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed,..."

Sat, 21 May 2011 09:58:05 +0930

“Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don’t misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.”

- Pablo Picasso

"A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what..."

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:28:19 +0930

“A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified? Though we have no positive evidence of a charged body existing in space without other oppositely electrified bodies being near, there is a fair probability that the earth is such a body, for by whatever process it was separated from other bodies — and this is the accepted view of its origin — it must have retained a charge, as occurs in all processes of mechanical separation.”

- Nikola Tesla

"The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

Thu, 12 May 2011 19:13:11 +0930

“The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.”

- Arthur C. Clarke

"The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new..."

Tue, 10 May 2011 18:11:20 +0930

“The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art.”

- Kazimir Malevich

"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself."

Sat, 07 May 2011 10:31:10 +0930

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.”

- Galileo Galilei

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the..."

Thu, 05 May 2011 10:32:11 +0930

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”

- Frank Herbert
Dune

"A man travels back in time and impregnates a woman, which he later learns was his own mother, who..."

Wed, 04 May 2011 12:50:00 +0930

“A man travels back in time and impregnates a woman, which he later learns was his own mother, who then gives birth to him. He is therefore his own father and thus his own grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great grandfather ad infinitum. This makes his ancestry infinite, and yet gives him no origin for his paternal genetic material.”

- Ontological Paradox

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Tue, 03 May 2011 14:53:06 +0930

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of..."

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:19:39 +0930

“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.”

- Edward Abbey

"Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we..."

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:00:35 +0930

“Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don’t know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.”

- Benjamin Peirce on Geometry

"If there were no God, there would be no atheists."

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:22:05 +0930

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”

- G. K. Chesterton

"As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our..."

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:01:22 +0930

“As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses. These reality enthusiasts are possibly playing at hide-and-seek; at any rate they like to hide themselves, though they are not usually aware of it. They simply do it because they happen to have been born with a sense of reality, that is, with a great interest in so- called reality, and because man likes to forget himself.”

- M. C. Escher

"It is then unnecessary to investigate whether there be beyond the heaven Space, Void or Time. For..."

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:47:00 +0930

“It is then unnecessary to investigate whether there be beyond the heaven Space, Void or Time. For there is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call Void; in it are innumerable globes like this one on which we live and grow. This space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, possibility, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit. In it are an infinity of worlds of the same kind as our own.”

- Giordano Bruno
1584

"The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual..."

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:26:09 +0930

“The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.”

- Georg Cantor

"Paradox is the intellectual life’s authentic pathos, and just as only great souls are prone to..."

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:21:00 +1030

“Paradox is the intellectual life’s authentic pathos, and just as only great souls are prone to passions, so only great thinkers are prone to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing but grand thoughts still wanting completion.”

- Soren Kierkegaard
(Journals, II A 755)

"If nothing is impossible then everything must be possible. If this is so then it must also be..."

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:34:07 +1030

“If nothing is impossible then everything must be possible. If this is so then it must also be possible for something to be impossible.”

- Variation on The Exception Paradox

"You can never truly arrive at your goal of point B when travelling from your starting position at..."

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:34:09 +1030

“You can never truly arrive at your goal of point B when travelling from your starting position at point A. To do so you must always reach the halfway point first. From there you must then reach the halfway point between your new location and your goal, and then from there the halfway point of that half. Then half of that half, and then half of that half ad infinitum.”

- Zeno of Elia

"If you replace a part on a ship then it will still be the same ship. You could then over time..."

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:30:07 +1030

“If you replace a part on a ship then it will still be the same ship. You could then over time eventually replace every part of the ship, one by one, and it will still be the same ship you started with. If you then gathered all the original parts which you replaced and from them constructed a whole new ship, then this would also be the same ship with which you started.”

- The Ship Of Theseus

"If there is an exception to every rule, then every rule must have at least one exception; the..."

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:31:06 +1030

“If there is an exception to every rule, then every rule must have at least one exception; the exception to this being that this rule has no exception.”

- Exception Paradox