Raymond Smullyan quotes

Why should I worry about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime! (Raymond Smullyan)
There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility." View quote
Raymond Smullyan
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. View quote
Raymond Smullyan
Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere. View quote
Raymond Smullyan
Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions. View quote
Raymond Smullyan
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! View quote
Raymond Smullyan
If it is really true that you cannot resist them, then you are not sinning of your own free will and hence (at least according to me) not sinning at all. View quote
Raymond Smullyan
From what little was known about the subject, insincerity itself was regarded as another form of psychosis but one which was exceedingly rare. View quote
Raymond Smullyan
Of course the falsity of the fact that you believe it is red implies that you don't believe it is red. But this does not mean that you believe it is not red! View quote
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Medical opinions differed as to the cause of this "humor" disease. View quote
Raymond Smullyan
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)