…if I had lived before on the moon or on Mars and there had committed the most disgraceful and dishonourable action and had there been put to such shame and ignominy as one can only conceive and realise in dreams, in nightmares, and if, finding myself afterwards on earth, I were able to retain the memory of what I had done on the other planet and at the same time knew that I should never, under any circumstances, return there, then looking from the earth to the moon — should I care or not?

— Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

what has been proven is that in any system of mathematics where you can do basic arithmetic there will always be true statements that are impossible to prove.

— Veritasium, Math’s Fundamental Flaw

…freedom really is a zero-sum game. The freedom of gods or kings is the measure of human slavery.

— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules

If religion is often about wishing, then existentialism is about willing.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

The natural tendency of the academic world is to focus on process over product. That’s part of “doing in order to learn,” it’s part of “interesting rather than useful.”

— Robert L. Glass and Tom DeMarco, Software Creativity 2.0