„You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.“ (no. 2) #Whitman
„Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is a big brother who will look after you. That plays a very profound part in influencing people’s desire for a belief in God.“ (p. 19) #Russell #safety #God
„In the laws of number, then, and in those of space, we recognize in the most unqualified manner, the rigorous universality of which we are in quest. Those laws have been in all ages the type of certainty, the standard of comparison for all inferior degrees of evidence. Their invariability is so perfect, that it renders us unable even to conceive any exception to them; and philosophers have been led, though (as I have endeavored to show) erroneously, to consider their evidence as lying not in experience, but in the original constitution of the intellect.“ (Chap. V, § 1) #Mill #number #space
„Bewußtsein stellt sich nur an den Stellen ein, die durch kontingente Singularitäten gekennzeichnet sind, an Stellen, an denen der Körper sich selbst tangiert.“ (p. 19) #Serres #Bewußtsein
„»Sinnlosigkeit« kann deshalb nie durch Negation von Sinnhaftigkeit gewonnen werden. Sinnlosigkeit ist ein Spezialphänomen, es ist überhaupt nur im Bereich der Zeichen möglich und besteht in einer Verwirrung von Zeichen.“ (p. 96) #Luhmann #Sinnlosigkeit #Zeichen