Best 6 quotes of Jim Holt on MyQuotes

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'.

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.

To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world

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

You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas.

I find it hard to swallow the notion that the world is improved by extra suffering. And that goes for a lot of Christian doctrine. Jones commits a crime, so you expiate the evil by nailing Smith to a cross and it's all better. - John Leslie