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Raymond Smullyan
10 quotes
“Why should I worry about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!”
Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This Book Needs No Title (1986)
“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!”
Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Is God a Taoist? (1977)
“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.”
Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Is God a Taoist? (1977)
“There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.”
Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Is God a Taoist? (1977)
“Medical opinions differed as to the cause of this "humor" disease.”
Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Planet Without Laughter (1980)
“From what little was known about the subject, insincerity itself was regarded as another form of psychosis but one which was exceedingly rare.”
Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Planet Without Laughter (1980)
“Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.”
Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Planet Without Laughter (1980)
“Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.”
Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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!”
Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Epistemological Nightmare (1982)
“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.”
Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Epistemological Nightmare (1982)