336 Quotes by Kevin Hearne

Science cannot close the fist of reason around the miracle of consciousness any more than I can turn my sword into a light saber.

Why am I here?” Wukong chuckles, throwing his head back in unrestrained glee. “A philosophical question! The answer is simple: to learn and to grow.” “No, I mean, why am I here right now?” The Buddha cocks his head at me and shrugs. “The answer is the same, and will remain the same days and months and years hence.

I find the college children delightful. I would like to have a drink with them too.” “No, Leif, you want to drink of them, and they can sense that subconsciously.

Of course, I didn’t choose to fail. Failure is rarely a conscious decision and it’s often out of our control, determined by things like physics and circumstance and other people. What we can always control, however, is our reaction to failure.

It is a catalyst for suicide and untold other acts of selfishness and stupidity. I cannot think of a more poisonous emotion.

I’ve trained in many martial arts to defend myself against myriad weapons but never against beards. There’s not a whole lot of precedent.

Let me tell you, people go on and on about what a great idea electricity was, but I’m going to put toilet paper right next to the wheel and say those are the best ideas anyone’s ever had. Scoff at it if you will, but try living for two millennia without it and then we’ll talk.

Awesome! I’d just bullied Jesus into doing a shot with me. Nobody would ever believe it, but I didn’t care. We ordered the insanely expensive stuff, seventy-five dollars for a 1.75-ounce pour of premium Irish whiskey, because if you’re doing a shot with Jesus, you don’t buy him scotch.

That light source is lava. A bit more dangerous than those fancy twisty light bulbs ye see these days.