The poets did not win; the philosopher's surrendered. - (Umberto Eco)

Brendan

Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain) 

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto Publius Terentius Afer
"I am human: nothing that is human is alien to me."

Everyone believes himself a priori to be perfectly free, even in his individual actions, and thinks that at every moment he can commence another manner of life. ... But a posteriori, through experience, he finds to his astonishment that he is not free, but subjected to necessity, that in spite of all his resolutions and reflections he does not change his conduct, and that from the beginning of his life to the end of it, he must carry out the very character which he himself condemns.
- Schopenhauer

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
- Immanuel Kant

"It is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes.

"But God doesn't change."
"Men do though."
"What difference does that make?"
"All the difference in the world."
-excerpt from Brave New World

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