The conversations between Smith and Neo at the near end:
"Why Mr. Anderson
Why do you do it?
Why get up?
Why keep fighting?
Do you believe that you're fighting for something?
For more than your survival?
Can you tell me what it is?
Do you even know?
Is it freedom or truth?
Perhaps peace?
Could it be for love?
Illusion, Mr. Anderson,
Vagary of perception, temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect
Trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose
And all of them are as artificial as the matrix itself
Although only a human mind can invent something as insipid as love
You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson,
You must know it by now that you can't win
It is pointless to keep fighting
Why, Mr. Anderson. Why? Why?
Why do you persist?"
"Because I choose to," Neo answered.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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Reading List
- Alain de Botton: The Consolations of Philosophy
- Alec Wilkinson: The Happiest Man in the World
- Bhagavad Gita As It Is
- Daniel C Dennett: Breaking the Spell
- Daniel C Dennett: Consciousness Explained
- Daniel C Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- Daniel C Dennett: Freedom Evolves
- David Weeks: Eccentrics
- Edward O. Wilson: On Human Nature
- Friedrich Schiller: Essays (The German Library)
- G. I. Gurdijieff: Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am"
- Hil Washburn, ed: The Many Faces of Wisdom
- John Kekes: The Art of Life
- John Strohmeier: Divine Harmony (Pythagoras)
- Matthew Stewart: The Truth about Everything
- Michel Foucault: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
- Michel Foucault: The Hermeneutics of the Subject
- Michel Waldberg: Gurdjieff: An Approach to His Ideas
- Osho: The Book of Understanding
- Osho: The Book of Wisdom
- P. D. Ouspensky: In Search of the Miraculous
- P. D. Ouspensky: The Fourth Way
- Paul C. Vitz: Faith of the Fatherless
- Pierre Hadot: What Is Ancient Philosophy (tr: Michael Chase)
- Robert Wright: Nonzero: the Logic of Human Destiny
- Robert Wright: The Evolution of God
- Robert Wright: The Moral Animal
- Seneca: Dialogues and Essays
- Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
- The Upanishads
- Xenophon: A History of My Time

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