Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.

~ Jim Holt

Jim Holt Existentialism Nirvana Philosophy

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

Jim Holt Existentialism Philosophy Self

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

~ Jim Holt

Jim Holt Christianity Faith Evil God