48 Quotes by Bernard Beckett

Just listening to you makes my back hurt. Why do you think that is?""Your body is trying to distract your brain from things it doesn't want to hear. That's the problem with machines built by chance. Once a design flaw has become entrenched, it's so difficult to correct it.

He chose words carefully, for the sounds they made, or the shape of the ideas they folded into.

For a society to function successfully, perhaps there needs to be a level of empathy that cannot be corrupted.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

You think the thing you call consciousness is some mysterious gift from the heavens, but in the end consciousness is nothing but the context in which your thinking occurs. Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.

Talk is never just words.