Joshua

“Of course, one is familiar with the experience of seeing something ambiguous. “Now it is the Taj Mahal—now it is fog.” And one can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled “fog.”
― Michael Frayn

“He stood still as I moved away from him, watching me with that look he only got when we were Working, as if I were the only thing in the world he could see.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, Ellie's Story

“Wir Theoso­phen wollen die andern gern verstehen; und wir können war­ten, bis sie uns Gleiches mit Gleichem vergelten werden. Sollte ich mein mathematisch-nüchternes Denken, und meine Spinoza-Verehrung verleugnen müssen, weil ich Theosoph bin, wahrlich ich wäre es in einer Stunde nicht mehr. Da ich aber Theosoph geworden bin, weil ich einstmals zwischen den Vorlesungen über «Integration linearer Differentialglei­chungen», synthetischer Geometrie und deskriptiver Geome­trie wirklich habe mathematisch denken gelernt und damit auch den Zugang zum spirituellen Forschen im Sinne Platos er­langt habe, so wird mir wohl—nichts passieren.”
― Rudolf Steiner

“For the nature of duration is such that a greater or lesser than a given duration can always be conceived, as is the case with number. You will perhaps insist that God has been from eternity and so has endured until the present, and thus there is a duration other than which a greater cannot be conceived. But in this way there is attributed to God a duration consisting of parts, which we have abundantly refuted when we demonstrated that there pertains to God not duration, but eternity. Would that men had thoroughly considered this truth, for then they might very easily have extricated themselves from many arguments and absurdities, and have given themselves up with the greatest delight to the blessed contemplation of this being.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Principles of Cartesian Philosophy with Metaphysical Thoughts & Lodewijk Meyer's Inaugural Dissertation