Carlos Gershenson Quotes

I do not make any ontological claims. The moment you speak about them, they are already epistemology.

Knowledge brings more questions than answers.

Only misery is for free.

Don't try to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

Philosophers get paid for posing interesting questions; scientists for answering them. Thus, one cannot live without the other...

Every joy brings the sorrow of its absence in its wake.

Life is not meant to be perfect.

Everything can be seen as a system because there is nothing you cannot <split|decompose>.

Before being humans, we are animals.

Life is a constant adaptation.

If something has an explanation, you can explain it. If it has no explanation, you should explain why you cannot explain it.

Objects do not depend on the concepts we have of them.

Once you know the rules of the game, you can change them.

Who is stronger: the one who gives the blow, or the one who endures it?

The meaning of life does not depend on where one is standing, but on towards where one is heading.