Caleb Krugman

“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.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart. The most destitute men often end up by accepting illusion.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Self-contraction: the mind's requirements are satisfied by doing what we should, and by the calm it brings to us.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“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.”
― D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism