Preston

“The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self.”
― M.M. Bakhtin

“Perceptions which are at present insensible may grow some day: nothing is useless, and eternity provides great scope for change.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding

“Let us say, in a word, that the correlation between the laws of mathematics and of physics is the evidence of the rational character of nature. Nature may be reduced to motions; and motions can be understood only as force, activity. But the laws which connect motions are fundamentally mathematical laws,- laws of reason. Hence force, activity, can be understood only as rational, as spiritual. Nature is thus seen to mean Activity, and Activity is seen to mean Intelligence”
― John Dewey, Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding A Critical Exposition

“I went to the zoo once and saw this thing they call an anteater. That was quite enough for me.”
― Thomas Pynchon