A Quote from The Talos Principle 2
Pandora
The honest philosopher is rewarded with poison; the hypocrite is rewarded with power.
More quotes from The Talos Principle 2
Ther is no tool that is not also a weapon; and no human that would wield it as one.
If humankind had no more cause for war, if would make war for sport instead.
User tried to make changes to their own device settings which could result in an infinite regress and/or omnipotence. There is only room for one god around here.
Straton wrote that the most common error we commit is to think that ideas determine reality, when in fact the opposite is true. Ideas follow from material conditions; belief systems are formed to explain and justify the way we live. We did not have kings because we believed in the mandate of heaven; we believed in the mandate of heaven because we lived in monarchies.
Is it possible that on some level, people want to believe that everything's going to get worse? That it's comforting to think that humanity is bad and every solution will just go wrong? Because that way, you're never responsible. You never have to take on responsibility for anything outside yourself and never have to grow up.
