Dean A.Kowalski

The Philosophy of The X-Files

Notify me when the book’s added
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
  • София Керимоваhas quoted3 years ago
    Melt with You
  • София Керимоваhas quoted3 years ago
    A terrible and paralyzing anxiety goes along with this kind of self-exploration, and this too appears in The X-Files
  • София Керимоваhas quoted3 years ago
    Deduction proves. Induction confirms.
  • София Керимоваhas quoted3 years ago
    the veil of smoke surrounding the alien truths out there.13
  • София Керимоваhas quoted3 years ago
    long as the truth is kept from us, so long as we do not have it, we must live in service to a truth provided by someone else, and thus our lives will be lived, not on our own terms, but on the terms of whoever provides that truth—whether that “truth” is true or not.
  • София Керимоваhas quoted3 years ago
    something inherent in how we know things, in knowledge itself, prevents us from gaining an adequate understanding of the truth
  • София Керимоваhas quoted3 years ago
    which can be called a worldview, a conceptual framework, or a paradigm—are a pair of glasses you cannot remove.
  • София Керимоваhas quoted3 years ago
    built entirely upon the sand of clever jokes rather than on the more time-consuming—and admittedly less hilarious—archaeological excavation of a text required to find buried philosophical treasure.
  • София Керимоваhas quoted3 years ago
    this uncertainty has only strengthened my need to know, to understand, to apply reason to those things which seem to defy it.
  • София Керимоваhas quoted3 years ago
    invariably we are left to decide for ourselves.
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)