The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable
If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
The menu is not the meal.
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
Belief is the death of intelligence.
...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
One possibility is: G-d is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
You look like you bin whupped with a ugly stick.
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
The map is not the territory.
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
...reality is always plural and mutable.
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.
Conscious Evolution
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
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