Daniel

“The certain, lonely knowledge [120] that everything is vain but grief.”
― Giacomo Leopardi, Canti

“Within the secular world picture, Neuromania and Darwinitis are the biggest piles of rubbish.”
― Raymond Tallis, Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity

“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
― Erwin Schrödinger

“No little part of the torment of existence lies in this, that Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always coming after us, like a taskmaster with a whip. If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the misery of boredom.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays