Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkThe Tremendous Mystery of Nature – Bernardo Kastrup
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"A tremendous mystery unfolds in front of our senses every waking hour of our lives; a mystery more profound, more tantalizing, more penetrating and urgent than any novel or thriller. This unfolding mystery is nature’s challenge to us. Are we paying enough attention to it?"
Bernardo Kastrup
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkBernardo Kastrup on Modern Substitute Gods
"We now find our gods not on the altar, but in the bottle of alcohol, the football match on television, the new pair of shoes and the arms of the casual lover."
Bernardo Kastrup
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkBernardo Kastrup Quote on Materialism and Unhappy People
"The mainstream metaphysics of materialism legitimizes the outrageous notion that unhappy people are simply malfunctioning biological robots."
Bernardo Kastrup
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkTruth-Seeking – Bernardo Kastrup
"Truth-seeking is the path to self-annihilation and thus to liberation."
Bernardo Kastrup
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkOur Myth-Making Capacity – Bernardo Kastrup
"Our myth-making capacity may be our key role in the dance of existence."
Bernardo Kastrup
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkMaterialism and Its Critique by Bernardo Kastrup
"Materialism represents an astonishing failure of the human intellect to see what’s right under its nose. It hides nature’s marvelous simplicity behind a veil of contrivance. Its continuing survival in face of the mounting odds of reason, evidence and direct experience requires constant and deliberate maintenance. Indeed, materialism serves powerful economic and political interests."
Bernardo Kastrup
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkInfluence of the Zeitgeist – Bernardo Kastrup
"Indeed, it is nearly impossible for any person inserted in a modern cultural context to escape the haze of the zeitgeist and develop a truly unbiased, critical, and personal worldview."
Bernardo Kastrup
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkBernardo Kastrup on Materialism
"materialism is a fantasy. It’s based on unnecessary postulates, circular reasoning and selective consideration of evidence and data. Materialism is by no stretch of the imagination a scientific conclusion, but merely a metaphysical opinion that helps some people interpret scientific conclusions."
Bernardo Kastrup
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkCritique of Materialism by Bernardo Kastrup
"By extricating 'reality' from mind, materialism has sent the significance of nature into exile. With the pathetic grin of hubris stamped on our foolish faces, we carefully unwrap the package and then proceed to throw away its contents whileb proudly storing the empty box on the altar of our ontology. What a huge stash of empty boxes have we accumulated! Idols of stupidity they are; public reminders of a state of affairs that would be hilarious if it weren't tragic."
Bernardo Kastrup
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkSpace and Time as Subjective Experiences – Bernardo Kastrup
"Space and time are like ghosts that vanish into thin air every time we try to grab them. Their ‘form’ is ‘emptiness’ referring to itself in a kind of cognitive short-circuit... [They] are names we give to certain configurations of subjective experience, not independent entities out there."
Bernardo Kastrup