“Я організовував харківський концерт «Ю-ту»… У Харкові був концерт «Ю-ту»? – перебив його Сан Санич. Ні, вони відмовились.”
Source: Hymne der Demokratischen Jugend
“An interpretation [of a formal system] will be meaningful to the extent that it accurately reflects some isomorphism to the real world.”
Source: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“[S]uitably complicated recursive systems might be strong enough to break out of any predetermined patterns. And isn't this one of the defining properties of intelligence? Instead of just considering programs composed of procedures which can recursively”
Source: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“Science and Metaphysics show us part of what “is”. Logic and Epistemology help us interpret this part and understand how much of it we can really know. And finally, Ethics teaches us how to embrace this knowledge and how to cherry-pick only those things that will give us endurance and contentment in the long run, avoiding those that may keep our hearts buried in the ground; how to live well and decently and how to help the society function properly.”
“An idea blended with common sense is logic.”
Source: Quantraz
“If God wanted me to marry poor he would have made me homely.”
“For Christians who feel no need to understand what they believe, logical contradictions do not pose a problem for their faith.”
Source: The Passion and Persuasion, A Biblical Deconstruction of the Evangelical Rhetoric of the Cross
“And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it.
Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow?
Were the moments of beauty worth the year of pain?
And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says 'Always.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Can I tell you that in my eyes not even God would be good enough to command you?”
Source: Beyond Eden
“Reason is still our signature tool for coping with a complex reality, yet it is easily subverted by overconfidence, cognitive closure, and biases.”
Source: Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars