Quantum mechanics posits that the world essentially operates on probability. But you know what else operates on probability?
(Wrong answers only)
“I’m sorry. But weariness is a kind of madness. And there are times when the only feeling I have is one of mad revolt.”
— Albert Camus, The Plague (trans. Justin O’Brien)
We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices.
Bertrand Russell, The ABC of Relativity (via philosophybits)
This isn’t anything anyone can’t logically deduce, Russell must’ve been a lonely man.
mourning
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music"
-Friedrich Nitzsche
1987
Anyone who fights with monsters should take care that he does not in the process become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
-Essays and Aphorisms, Arthur Schopenhauer
— Fyodor Dostoevsky from "The Brothers Karamazov"