Quotes by "Elmar Hussein"

16. Natural language carries a special kind of virtual energy. The categorical apparatus and the propositional structure of any language are constantly rebuilding the cognitive system of a person, his way of perceiving, imagining and expressing the world and what is happening in this world. Therefore, be careful with natural language when you start thinking in that language.

Every science is a child of philosophy. Therefore, each took something from the parent before eventually moving and becoming independent. However, a good parent is always a symbol of deep wisdom, huge life experience and tremendous support for the child.

Never regret not being able to realize certain things in your life. You are who you are now, partly because of these things, and if you are satisfied with your existence now, there is no need to feel sad about past. Maybe even a small difference in the past could make you feel displeased now. The same is true with regard to the future. You are going to be someone, partly because you cannot achieve all of your goals now, and nobody can know if these achievement can make us happy or cause suffering in the future.

Do not concentrate on your sufferings. Concentrate on your hope. Hope means life.

Success has nothing to do with morality.

1. Your personal identity over time is dependent on mental connectedness of your being at an earlier time and your being at a later time. If there is no right way for this connectivity, this will mean that your inner world as a whole system has already changed over a period of time and for that reason you are not yet the same person. Make it sure whether you have still the same personality or not before claiming that you are one and the same person.

If God is omniscient, this doesn't necessarily mean that he is omnipotent, too. Omniscience is associated with future events that cannot be changed. In similar way, it is impossible to change the causal chain leading up to the emergence of these future events, while omnipotence is related to the power to change and re-arrange this causal chain itself. Now the question is whether God can have it in his power to make such a change and re-arrangement? If yes, then God would contradict himself: how can God foreknow something that will not happen because of an alteration of the causal chain leading to its occurrence at a later time? If not, God would contradict himself, too: how can God be Almighty if he cannot alter what he believed to happen at a earlier time?

If the old generation is weak-spirited, while the young generation is smooth-tongued, it means that it is not case that you are in the right place at the right time with the right people-- you can hardly do something significant in this social spatio-temporal continuum.

Time sometimes becomes very merciless, heartless -- it switches off the brightness of the eyes that you once loved.

Conditional happiness, to a considerable extent, depends on the chance to meet a highly desirable person in the right place at the right moment. If this is not the case, it means that either too early, or too late for you to be happy -- your time, for this mission, has not yet come, or it has already passed away.

It's amazing to observe numerous dull beings with some illusion of knowledge around you. In their mind, they know that God exists, but even if it is not case that God exists, they would still believe it. In their mind, they know that some political ideologies express objectivity, but even if it is not case that these ideologies express objectivity, they would still believe them. In their mind, they know that some historical facts are true, but even if it is not case that these facts are true, they would still believe them. Whatever is in their mind is merely belief but not knowledge. The paradox of knowledge emerges when a person confuses knowledge with belief.

Unlike science, philosophy is not only taught ideas, but also a way of life. Be careful with the choice of your philosophy.

The fundamental difference between ideology and science is that the former asserts what you or someone else would prefer to hear, and the second about what is plausible in his vision, without taking this preference into account. Ideology can never be more than a subjective value judgment, while science must be free from that judgment. Ideology is intended for the masses, who have little or no rational and analytical thinking, science - for intellectuals, for whom this thinking is the main value. The masses will never be able to do genuine science, because no true intellectual can be an ideologue, because any ideological assumption will deprive him of his rational and analytical thinking or significantly reduce it. Free rational thinking based on empirical scientific facts often forces you to go against various common forms of ideology, such as history and religion.

It is much more difficult for women to succeed in science than for men, not because their intelligence is lower than that of men, but because, unlike men, they tend to spend their time and energy mainly on conversations and dreams. However, what makes them women is only those distinguishing features, without which they would resemble men, not women.

Science has more questions than answers to any topic. Any answer entails more than one question. Therefore, to be a scientist is to be ready to live with this suffering.

Some feminists are really very interesting people. Science cannot unambiguously clarify which one — nature or nurture— fundamentally determines personality traits and human behavior, but some feminist movements already distinguish sex (biological factors) from gender (social factors), insisting that social cultivation can significantly modify social roles and behavior patterns and radically change the perception of traditional masculinity and femininity in the social system. In fact, without reliable scientific verification of the relationship between nature and nurture in the predestination of future human life, they offer a firm ready-made belief in changing this life with education and upbringing. And this is one of the essential differences between science and political ideology, which also includes feminism among others.

I am not a feminist, because, in my opinion, this is a political ideology. I am a humanist, and I care about the problems of all mankind, and I wonder how these problems can be solved by scientific methods. In this case, I am a positivist, that is, I think that functional dynamics in a social system can be supported by a rational design, taken in a certain space-time continuum, but not by abstract metaphysical concepts, such as freedom, equality, and so on. If we consider humanism as a whole system, then feminism will be its subsystem. If the whole system - all of humanity is in prosperity, then all its subsystems will be a satisfactory condition for this. If our attention is concentrated solely on a specific subsystem, then we can now relatively regenerate it due to the degeneration of the entire system in the long term.

7. Philosophy is not science, but this does not mean that it is less good than a science. Philosophy is an alternative language by which it is possible to communicate with reality. Speaking more than one language makes you more open-minded. Philosophy can open up new opportunities to understand quite different and unexpected aspects of reality.

A person who is only educated by others is an uneducated person; without self-education, you will not be able to get an education in the strict sense of the word.

A person, only educated by others, is an uneducated person; without self-education you cannot get an education in the strict sense of the term.