22 Quotes by Raymond Smullyan

All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.

Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.

It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible that the actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs founded on faith rather than evidence?

I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!

I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't.

Why should I be worried about dying? It’s not going to happen in my lifetime!

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that’s all I can say.

Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don’t is that I’m a Gemini.

Metaphysical problems about “mind” versus “matter” arise only from epistemological confusions.