Bernard Beckett Quotes

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Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

Bernard Beckett

I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.

Bernard Beckett

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

Bernard Beckett

From our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

Bernard Beckett

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

Bernard Beckett

This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.

Bernard Beckett

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

Bernard Beckett