Marnix Academie Quotes & Sayings

We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we understand something, even a computer, merely because we can model or digitize it. — Jaron Lanier

A Godless life is a goalless life. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

He said 'My kingdom is not of this world.' So did Bowie. It tapped into the whole Catholic idea of creating your own saints, finding icons of divinity in the mundane. As a religion, Bowieism didn't seem so different from Catholicism - the hemlines were just a little higher. — Rob Sheffield

Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire. — William James

I'm grateful you entrusted me with them. But the day will come when someone will knock the sails out of you. She'll shatter every belief you had of me and you. She'll give herself completely and unconditionally; and you will too. And I'll be nothing more than a fond memory. — Senayda Pierre

To create mass discord, make the people believe there is great prestige for being the first to speak an idea. — Tom Althouse