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Favourite philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Richard Burthogge, Bertrand Rusell, Ralph Cudworth, Noam Chomsky, Galen Strawson, Raymond Tallis, Bryan Magee
Favourite quotations "It's always night or we wouldn't need light."

- Thelonious Monk

"It has become standard practice in recent years to describe the problems of consciousness as "the hard problem," others being within our grasp, now or down the road. I think there are reasons for some skepticism particularly when we recognize how sharply understanding becomes beyond the simplest systems of nature."

- Noam Chomsky

"You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years."

- Bertrand Russell

"We found, to be sure, that although we had in mind to build a tower that was to reach to heaven, yet our supply of materials sufficed only for a dwelling just spacious enough for the tasks we perform at the level of experience, and just high enough for us to survey these tasks."

- Immanuel Kant

"Enchanted by its rigour, humanity forgets over and again that it is a rigour of chess masters, not of angels."

- Jorge Luis Borges

"...From all which it is evident, that the extent of our knowledge comes not only short of the reality of things, but even of the extent of our own ideas. Though our knowledge be limited to our ideas, and cannot exceed them either in extent or perfection; and though these be very narrow bounds... and far short of what we may justly imagine to be in some even created understandings, not tied down to the dull and narrow information that is to be received from some few, and not very acute, ways of perception, such as are our senses; yet it would be well with us if our knowledge were but as large as our ideas, and there were not many doubts and inquiries concerning the ideas we have, whereof we are not, nor I believe ever shall be in this world resolved."

- John Locke

"Let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appear'd in that narrow compass."

- David Hume

"But then if I look out of the window and see men crossing the square, as I just happen to have done, I normally say that I see the men themselves… Yet do I see any more than hats and coats which could conceal automatons? I judge that they are men. And so something which I thought I was seeing with my eyes is in fact grasped solely by the faculty of judgment which is in my mind."

- Rene Descartes

"Submission ends it all..."

- The Stone Roses

"But, concerning what you think to be the truth of the thing, or the ultimate nature of honey, this is what I ardently desire to know, and what remains still hidden from me..."

- Pierre Gassendi

"Though it was not the Intention of God or Nature to abuse us herein, but a most wise contrivance thus to beautify and adorn the visible and material world, to add lustre or embellishment to it, that it might have charms, relishes and allurements in it, to gratify our appetites; whereas otherwise really in it self, the whole corporeal world in its naked hue, is nothing else but a heap of dust or atoms"

- Ralph Cudworth

"All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be."

- Pink Floyd
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