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Ross McPherson
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Trying to define conscious experience in terms of more primitive notions is fruitless. One might as well try to define matter or space in terms of something more fundamental.
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“God himself does not know what he is, because he is not any what”
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“The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.”
― Theory of Colours
― Theory of Colours
“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
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“The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion. And yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it is that above all which prevents us thinking about ourselves and leads is imperceptibly to destruction. But for that we should be bored, and boredom would drive us to seek some more solid means of escape, but diversion passes our time and brings us imperceptibly to our death.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
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