Quotes from Frank Tallis

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.

We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.

All mature adults must accept that they are essentially unknowable--and that they will never know the one they love. Even when we kiss there is distance; it is a distance that cannot be bridged by romantic love and must be respected if a relationship is to succeed. The real metric by which we can gauge the authenticity of love is not how close we want to be, how merged and intermingled, but how far we can stand apart and still be together.

Moreover, we forget things every day, so in a sense we are constantly dissolving into nothingness.

All mature adults must accept that they are essentially unknowable—and that they will never know the one they love...The real metric by which we can gauge the authenticity of love is not how close we want to be, how merged and intermingled, but how far we can stand apart and still be together

On the other hand, venting one's frustrations at the keyboard typically produces a more impressive performance.

SkromnosÃ…Â¥ sa tradi?ne považovala za cnosÃ…Â¥ a z dobrých dôvodov. Musíme si svoju skromnosÃ…Â¥ chrániÃ…Â¥, pretože ona nás zasa chráni pred nami samými.

Nemôžeme svoje životné rozhodnutia založiÃ…Â¥ na presved?eniach vychádzajúcich z nejasností. Životné rozhodnutia treba založiÃ…Â¥ na vierohodných teóriách, pozorovaniach a evidentných vzÃ…Â¥ahoch prí?iny a následku.

Plníme aj iné ciele, nielen také, ktoré uspokoja naÅ¡e hmotné potreby, pri?om najpríÃ…Â¥ažlivejÅ¡í a najdokonalejÅ¡í z nich je objavenie kone?nej pravdy. Máme nutkanie žiadaÃ…Â¥ od vesmíru viac, než je pripravený nám daÃ…Â¥.

Ak nebudeme žiadaÃ…Â¥ vesmír o veci, ktoré nám nemôže daÃ…Â¥, nezdrví nás realita. Nepotrebujeme jediný a definitívny dôvod života. Posta?í aj ?ubovo?né množstvo menÅ¡ích.

All mature adults must accept that they are essentially unknowable--and that they will never know the one they love.

Smrtka vždy odchádza z javiska s potmehúdskym poh?adom - možno nazna?uje, že jej tajným darom je obnova.

One should never underestimate the murderous rage of children.