Will Jacoby

“... The result, in this world view, is that real freedom comes not from the decisions of an ego-self’s “will” but from action without any Self
whatsoever”
― Francisco J. Varela, The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

“There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“Line in nature is not found;
Unit and universe are round;
In vain produced, all rays return;
Evil will bless, and ice will burn.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World