42 Quotes by Peter J. Carroll

Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.

All Philosophy is Biography.

We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.

It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.

Matter can be conveniently divided for descriptive purposes into space, time, mass, and energy. However we can only describe any one of these phenomena in terms of the other three. Any definitions we care to make about matter are thus tautological .

Can we find “The Universe in a grain of sand”? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.

Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.

Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.