Philip Cushing

“the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Not only does God play dice but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”
― Stephen Hawking