Brendan Clancy

“Deep understanding of causality sometimes requires the understanding of very large patterns and their abstract relationships and interactions, not just the understanding of microscopic objects interacting in microscopic time intervals.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop

“Remember. Materialism is just another bullshit faith. Poetry is fucking alchemy.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, The Bones of Our Existence, A Journal 2046

“From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen.”
― Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)

“Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create