Bernard Beckett Quotes

The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.

Imagination is the bastard child of time and ignorance

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

I write with teenagers in mind.

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

our questions, but the need to do this

I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.

But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

From our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.