Alan Gordon

“Against the view that whatever we have come to love, celebrate and honour is ‘nothing but’ something else, I suggest a different view: nothing can ever be ‘nothing but’ something else, because nothing whatever is ever the same as something else; that all that exists is more than we could ever be in a position fully to understand; that, far from being much less than we imagine, we are almost certainly far more than we can imagine.”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World