Niki Wang

“You can be in paradise only when you do not know what it is like to be in paradise. As soon as you know, paradise is gone. No effort of thought can take you back, for thought – the conscious awareness of yourself as a mortal being – is the Fall. In the Garden of Eden, the primordial human pair are clothed in ignorance of themselves. When they come to self-awareness, they find they are naked. Thinking of yourself is the gift of the serpent that cannot be returned.”
― John N. Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life

“Sometimes falsehoods and myths that are "common wisdom" can survive indefinitely simply because the prospect of exposing them is itself rendered daunting or awkward by a taboo. An indefensible mutual presumption
can be kept aloft for years or even centuries because each person assumes that somebody else has some very good reasons for maintaining it, and nobody dares to challenge it.”
― Daniel C. Dennett

“Killing and dying for nonsensical ideas is how many human beings have made sense of their lives.”
― John N. Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life

“1 Never try to persuade human beings to be reasonable”
― John N. Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life