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Daniel C. Dennett
“Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling the story we tell others - and ourselves - about who we are.”
Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained

Wisława Szymborska
“Dividing earth and sky
is not the right way
to think about this wholeness.
It only allows one to live
at a more precise address--
were I to be searched for
I'd be found much faster.
My distinguishing marks
are rapture and despair.


From 'Sky', in the collection 'Miracle Fair”
Wislawa Szymborska

Ludwig Wittgenstein
“What finds its reflection in language, language cannot represent.

What expresses itself in language, we cannot express by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philisophicus

Simone de Beauvoir
“I cannot withdraw into myself. I exist, outside myself and everywhere in the world. There is not an inch of my path which does not encroach on the path of another: there is no way of being that can prevent me from overflowing myself at every moment. This life that I weave with my own substance, it offers other men a thousand unknown faces, it crosses impetuously their fate.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others

Tenzin Wangyal
“We pass through elementary school, high school, and maybe college, and in one sense every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance. Education reinforces the habit of seeing the world through a certain lens. We”
Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

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