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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.
“I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.”
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“The philosopher kills himself with thinking. Let him run on; his back is turned to the treasure. Most of those destined for Paradise are simpletons, so that they escape from the mischief of philosophy”
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“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
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“The recognition that places us at the very heart of Christianity, and ipso facto at the veritable antipode of the Vedic religion. To put it in the plainest possible terms: instead of man shedding his human nature to return to God, as in the Vedic religion, it now is God assuming human nature to unite himself with man”
― Vedanta in Light of Christian Wisdom
― Vedanta in Light of Christian Wisdom
“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”
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