“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.” Daniel Dennett “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.” Friedrich Nietzsche “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Søren Kierkegaard “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” Bertrand Russell “One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” Marie Curie “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Carl Sagan “Culture is not your friend.” Terence McKenna

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Alan Watts “Welcome to the desert of the real.” Slavoj Žižek “Culture critic who argues with everyone, the art and the academy included.” Camille Paglia “We are survival machines — robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.” Richard Dawkins “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.” Christopher Hitchens “Neuroscientist and philosopher. The End of Faith (2004) and Letter to a Christian Nation (2006) took on fundamentalism, morality and rationality.” Sam Harris

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“To be a fool at the right time is also an art.”

— Aldous Huxley

Photo credits

Photos from Wikimedia Commons, cut out and graded black and white. Edited Creative Commons photos are shared under the same licence.

Aldous Huxley: Henri Manuel, Public domain
Albert Camus: Photograph by United Press International, Public domain
Jean-Paul Sartre: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
Simone de Beauvoir: Moshe Milner, CC BY-SA 3.0
René Descartes: After Frans Hals, Public domain
Michel Foucault: Jerry Bauer, Public domain
Alan Watts: The University of Vermont Alumni Magazine, Public domain
Slavoj Žižek: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Camille Paglia: Fronteiras do Pensamento, CC BY-SA 4.0
Richard Dawkins: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0
Christopher Hitchens: ensceptico, CC BY 2.0
Sam Harris: Cmichel67 (Christopher Michel), CC BY-SA 4.0
Daniel Dennett: Dmitry Rozhkov, CC BY-SA 3.0
Friedrich Nietzsche: Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain
Søren Kierkegaard: La Biblioteca Real de Dinamarca, Public domain
Bertrand Russell: Bassano Ltd, Public domain
Marie Curie: Henri Manuel, Public domain
Carl Sagan: NASA/JPL, Public domain
Terence McKenna: Jon Hanna, CC BY-SA 3.0

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