Bernard Beckett
Bernard Beckett
Bernard Beckettis a New Zealand writer of fiction for young adults. His work includes novels and plays. Beckett has taught Drama, Mathematics and English at a number of high schools in the Wellington Region, and is currently teaching students at Hutt Valley High School in Lower Hutt...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionWriter
mind trying faces
I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
ideas together host
The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.
indifference plague
Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
ideas mind machines
The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.
hands feelings bleeding
I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.
knowledge
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
ideas brain way
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, its an evolved machine that we carry with us.
teenager writing mind
I write with teenagers in mind.
ideas mind together
Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.
concept
I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.