Saul Kripke Quotes

#1. For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

Saul Kripke

#2. I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

David Mamet

#3. It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

Saul Kripke

#4. It seemed wrong, she thought, that there should be such beauty in the world on a day like this.

Kate Mosse

#5. I wish I could have skipped college.

Saul Kripke

#6. And always, always, it is worth it to sing alleluia in defiance of the devil, who surely hates the sound of it.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#7. Proper names are rigid designators.

Saul Kripke

#8. I've played bingo with these senior citizens. They take that shit seriously. They might be old, but if you get I-22 when they were waiting for B-6? They'll bust your fucking kneecaps as quick as any backstreet bookie, without an ounce of remorse.

Emma Chase

#9. In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary
philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.

Saul Kripke

#10. Stop paying or buying into the ideas that don't resonate with the reality you prefer. Stop giving them credence. Appreciate, Appreciate your chosen vibration and allow the vibrations that are not aligned with you to de-preciate.

Darryl Anka

#11. Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is not supported by our original intuitions of possibility that gave the apparatus its point.

Saul Kripke

#12. Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.

Saul Kripke

#13. I want to read philosophers.

Saul Kripke

#14. The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

Sidney Altman

#15. Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

Saul Kripke