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Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.
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If it is really true that you cannot resist them, then you are not sinning of your own free will and hence (at least according to me) not sinning at all.
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I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!
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There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility."
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Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.
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Of course the falsity of the fact that you believe it is red implies that you don't believe it is red. But this does not mean that you believe it is not red!
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Medical opinions differed as to the cause of this "humor" disease.
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Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.
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From what little was known about the subject, insincerity itself was regarded as another form of psychosis but one which was exceedingly rare.
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Why should I worry about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!
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I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't.
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Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini.
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Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.
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I certainly believe that some things may in principle be mysteries, but of what use is a hypothesis for explaining a mystery when the very hypothesis raises another mystery just as baffling as the one it explains?
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It has always puzzled me that so many religious people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible that the actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs founded on faith rather than evidence?
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Raymond Smullyan
Born:
May 25, 1919
Died:
February 6, 2017
(aged 97)
Bio:
Raymond Merrill Smullyan was an American mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist philosopher, and magician.
Known for:
What Is the Name of This Book? (1978)
The tao is silent (1977)
To Mock a Mockingbird (1985)
Chess mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (1979)
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