A Quote from The Talos Principle 2
Melville
I've been wondering, what made our ancestors settle in these godforsaken places? It can't have been easy with those frail, squishy bodies of theirs.
What makes a caveman go yes, this frozen hellscape is where I want to live out my days?
More quotes from The Talos Principle 2
There's no human building that can survive without maintenance. Roots are stronger than concrete.
If humankind had no more cause for war, if would make war for sport instead.
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.
It's not right to make fun of Melville's comically absurd inability to take decent pictures.
She's a hyper-advanced humanoid machine, not a photographer.
The honest philosopher is rewarded with poison; the hypocrite is rewarded with power.
