Sean Ryan

“What happens after you die?" "Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you.”
― Louis C.K.

“Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.”
― Louis C.K.

“There is nothing uniquely human in the flicker of sentience that is commonly called consciousness. Dolphins delight in watching themselves in mirrors when they are having sex, while chimps react to the death of those they care for in much the same ways that humans do. It will be objected that these animals have no clear understanding of the kind of creature they are or what it means to die. In this regard too, however, they are no different from humans.”
― John N. Gray, The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom

“Everything that exists is a type of matter, he believed, including what we call the soul. We are reluctant to give up the distinction between matter and mind because we cannot imagine matter thinking. But, for Leopardi, the fact that we think shows that matter thinks:”
― John Nicholas Gray, The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom