“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on to him and they still give him much trouble at times.”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“Is satori something that is not at all capable of intellectual analysis? Yes, it is an experience which no amount of explanation or argument can make communicable to others unless the latter themselves had it previously. If satori is amenable to analysis in the sense that by so doing it becomes perfectly clear to another who has never had it, that satori will be no satori. For a satori turned into a concept ceases to be itself; and there will no more be a Zen experience.”
― An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
― An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
“Self-contraction: the mind's requirements are satisfied by doing what we should, and by the calm it brings to us.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Between "everywhere" and "forever" there is no compromise.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“For the absurd man it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
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