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da 5000 avanti Cristo... e altre fantasie filosofiche, 1.3.8; citato in Umberto Eco, Il pendolo di Foucault

“Ne I tredici orologi, Thurber dà una caratterizzazione della logica che suona all'incirca così: poiché è possibile toccare un orologio senza fermarlo, allora è possibile anche far partire un orologio senza toccarlo. Questa è la logica come la vedo e la capisco io.”

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“Why should I worry about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!”

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This Book Needs No Title (1986)

“There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility."”

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Is God a Taoist? (1977)

“Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.”

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Planet Without Laughter (1980)

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

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An Epistemological Nightmare (1982) http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/epistemologicalNightmare.html

“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!”

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Is God a Taoist? (1977) http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTaoist.html

“If it is really true that you cannot resist them, then you are not sinning of your own free will and hence (at least according to me) not sinning at all.”

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Is God a Taoist? (1977)

“From what little was known about the subject, insincerity itself was regarded as another form of psychosis but one which was exceedingly rare.”

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Planet Without Laughter (1980)

“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.”

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An Epistemological Nightmare (1982)

“Of course the falsity of the fact that you believe it is red implies that you don't believe it is red. But this does not mean that you believe it is not red!”

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An Epistemological Nightmare (1982)

“Medical opinions differed as to the cause of this "humor" disease.”

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Planet Without Laughter (1980) http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/smullyan.html

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