Smullyan Quotes

#1. When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology.

John Allen Paulos

#2. Our life together wasn't easy. We had plenty of heartbreak, plenty of sorrow. But we also had each other. We'd fought to have each other ... as long as we had each other, anything was bearable. Anything was possible.

Katy Regnery

#3. Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.

Raymond Smullyan

#4. 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

#5. Why should I be worried about death? ...

Raymond Smullyan

#6. I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest.

Dan Quayle

#7. Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital of South America; it was where the Spanish founded their empire and took over the Inca Empire and made it into a colony of Spain.

Mario Testino

#8. Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

Raymond Smullyan

#9. When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.

Fred Durst

#10. There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

Raymond Smullyan

#11. Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#12. Not another word was said for more than an hour. They only walked home together with aching feet and tired hearts.

Markus Zusak

#13. The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.

Paul C. Nagel

#14. Rain on my head; call it brain storming

Lil' Wayne

#15. I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

Patrick Wilson

#16. Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.

Raymond Smullyan

#17. Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini.

Raymond Smullyan

#18. The kundalini is the life force; it is the essential energy of existence. It is the hidden ingredient in life. It is what makes it all work.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.

Raymond Smullyan

#20. When I am angry I have a judgment and an unmet need.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#21. Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#22. It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible that the actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs founded on faith rather than evidence?

Raymond Smullyan

#23. When I write, I bring joy in my readers face
In my face, peace and complete happiness
But hardly I give any such reflection
During those times, I am in pain
A Sick person who is insane, mad and dead

Santosh Kalwar

#24. All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.

Raymond Smullyan

#25. Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

Raymond Smullyan

#26. Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.

Queen Victoria

#27. 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

#28. Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

Raymond Smullyan

#29. The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.

Caroline Myss