Jim Holt quotes

“Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.”
-- Jim Holt

Source : Jim Holt (2012). “Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer”, p.269, Profile Books

#Enough Quotes #Enjoy Quotes

“Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered.”
-- Jim Holt

Source : Jim Holt (2012). “Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer”, p.256, Profile Books

#Real Quotes #Self Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world”
-- Jim Holt

Source : Jim Holt (2012). “Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer”, p.96, Profile Books

#Simplicity Quotes #Principles Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas...”
-- Jim Holt

#Ideas Quotes #Danger Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common origin in the unconscious. Both are essentially means of outwitting our inner 'censor.”
-- Jim Holt

Source : Jim Holt (2008). “Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

#Dream Quotes #Mean Quotes #Common Quotes

“It has been said that the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is so profound that it would occur only to a metaphysician, yet so simple that it would occur only to a child.”
-- Jim Holt

Source : Jim Holt (2012). “Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer”, p.4, Profile Books

#Children Quotes #Simple Quotes #Profound Quotes

“When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.”
-- Jim Holt

#Trying Quotes #World Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.411, Macmillan

“The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.”

“Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.”

“Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.”

“When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.”

Source : "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2011.

“Please leave me something...even one memory would be enough.”

“I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.”

“I enjoy thelove I receive from my fans and my audience. But I think I know what is realfor me and what is not.”

“On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.”

“I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.”

Source : "National Book Festival: 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' Novelist Alexander McCall Smith". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 19, 2008.