Carlos Gershenson Quotes

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

All violence stems from fear

Life is not meant to be perfect.

The question is not whether something is wrong with subjectivity. We are embedded in it, so we can only deal with it, or be blind and attempt to ignore it.

When we are children, we think that adults know how the world works. When we become adults, we know enough about the world to know that we know nothing about it...

The easiest way to cope with complexity is not having it.

It is not that you cannot understand it, it is that you cannot compute it.

El sentido de la vida depende no de donde se encuentre uno sino de adonde se dirija.

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

A one-night-stander is someone who does not dare to explore the full potential of a relationship, just like a child who is afraid to go to the deep part of the pool. The latter does not want to learn how to swim, the former does not want to learn how to live.

To know your limits you need to go beyond them.

Just because it has always been that way does not mean that it will always be so.

Science, as an institution, cannot be independent of human passions.

We shouldn't see ourselves as ‘controllers' of the world, but as ‘actors' in the world.

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