Philosophers

"Western philosophy is the history of our effort to understand the silence of Parmenides, or to break it."

“Chaos is not an absence of causality, as is generally supposed, but an excess.”

“Once we get past skyscrapers and suspension bridges, we really have no idea what’s going on, do we?”

“Waiter, bring me one order of everything on the menu and when I’ve finished, I’ll pay for whatever dish I liked best.”

“You’ll end up living life as though you were counting cards at a Black Jack table in Las Vegas – in other words, profitably! But it’s still gambling.”   

“Writing at the same time as Kierkegaard, 10 years before Nietzsche, and 50 years before Heidegger and Sartre, Bakunin got it right.”

“The ultimate pattern of events is determined, while the specific events that form that pattern are entirely undetermined.”

“Of course, I have no name, no face, no identity; I belong nowhere.”

“Either death is ultimately subjected to something greater and more general than itself (Being) or death ultimately subjects everything to itself and then nothing else has any meaning or value.”

“Value-based judgments assume a transcendent point of view and sooner or later, that way of thinking leads to God-talk and any such talk is strictly verboten.”

“It is the very mark of a perverse desire that it seeks what is not to be had… As long as you are governed by that desire, you will never get what you want.”

“In this model, God is a giant switching station, sharing qualities among myriad monads.”