metaphysics

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.

The map is not the territory.

...reality is always plural and mutable.

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

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 _ what then?

The menu is not the meal.

belief is the death of intelligence.

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Change happens very slow and very sudden.

The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

I hear them say "Why do I miss someone I haven't even met?"How about not missing someone because it feels like they've been with you all along?

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

The world outside is a strange, but relentless mirror.