Alexander

“But already there is some ambiguity, for does black designate a “color” that does not reflect light (and if so, why label it a color?), or does black designate the “color” that results in the total absence of light? Without light, no color, and without color, there is only black – and yet black is not a color.”
― Eugene Thacker, Starry Speculative Corpse

“(...) we should strive to grow consciousness
itself — to generate bigger, brighter lights in an otherwise dark universe.”
― Giulio Tononi, Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul

“I one evening overtook one of my townsmen, who has accumulated what is called 'a handsome property'..on the Walden road, driving a pair of cattle to market, who inquired of me how I could bring my mind to give up so many of the comforts of life. I answered that I was very sure I liked it passably well; I was not joking. And so I went home to my bed, and left him to pick his way through the darkness and the mud to Brighton, which place he would reach some time in the morning.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walking