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“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
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“If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.”
― What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
― What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
“It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.”
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“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
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“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend”
― The Doors of Perception
― The Doors of Perception
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