Daniel

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

“Once the concept of information is liberated from the idea of a conscious someone being informed and from that of a conscious someone doing the informing, anything is possible. Language bewitches us and we imagine that the problem of consciousness has been solved when in fact is has simply been concealed by verbal legerdemain.”
― 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