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Spartan heart, Athenian mind.

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”If you don’t understand ontology, you don’t understand anything.”

– Hockney

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You can’t have atheism without 1st having the concept of God or gods, the illusion of free will without 1st having the concept of free will, the illusion of order without 1st having the concept of order, the illusion of reason without 1st having the concept of reason.

– Hockney

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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

– Emerson

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Humanity has proved adept at inventing causes and inept at understanding actual causation.

– Hockney

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Ppl imagine that the world is much more complex than it actually is, that there are far more potential explanations for reality .. The simple truth is that humanity has already thought of every possible way of explaining existence. Nothing new will be put on the table.

– Hockney

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.. the incredible fact is that religion is right and atheism wrong, as can be seen as soon as you get rid of stupid Abrahamic and Karmic versions of religion, and boil religion down to what it truly is.

– Hockney

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

– Nietzsche

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Science is just a meaningless system of contingency, with no purpose.

- Hockney

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While billions of humans remain wedded to mainstream religion, we will remain a backward, primitive, superstitious, deranged species, chopping off people’s heads to please our gods.

- Hockney

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It is as if one of the unwritten laws of his [i.e. Gödel’s] thought processes is: If reasoning and common sense should diverge, then ... so much the worse for common sense! What, in the long run, is common sense, other than common?

– Goldstein

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Our intellect reveals how the universe is in itself.

– Hockney

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Living in the moment – animals and empiricists.

Living in the future – rationalists.

– Hockney

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Rationalism = the science of Form. Empiricism = the pseudoscience of Content (i.e. it involves the interpretation of facts rather than facts themselves; facts are purely rational and concerned with Form).

– Hockney

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A fundamentally irrational universe would either destroy itself by virtue of its inherent instability and internal contradictions, or exist forever as absolute, meaningless chaos.

– Hockney

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Without a principle of sufficient reason, there would be no sufficient reason for existence, hence either nothing at all would exist, or existence would be totally irrational (which is essentially science’s claim). Self-evidently, existence is rational and ordered.

– Hockney

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No genuine intellectual takes science seriously.

– Hockney

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All systems of thought revolve around a small cast of elements: materialism, empiricism, phenomenalism and Content on the one hand and idealism, rationalism, noumenalism and Form on the other.

– Hockney

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Only reason work, because only reason – when used properly – can transcend the human mind and link to the Universal Mind ... the objective Mathematical Mind of the universe.

– Hockney

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“In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.”

– Finagle

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All knowledge exists as cause, i.e. cause explains everything. Since causation is not perceivable, knowledge cannot be empirical. That’s a rational fact. What our senses reveal to us is not knowledge, it’s experience, it’s interpretation, it’s opinion, it’s conjecture.

– Hockney