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“I, on the other hand, still might not be considered a proper adult. I had been very grown-up in primary school. But as I continued through secondary school, I in fact became less grown-up. And then as the years passed, I turned into quite a childlike person. I suppose I just wasn't able to ally myself with time.”
― The Briefcase
― The Briefcase
“In these explanations it is presumed that an experiencing subject is one occasion of a sensitive reaction to an actual world.’
the rain falls
that had not been falling
and it is the same world”
― Of Being Numerous
the rain falls
that had not been falling
and it is the same world”
― Of Being Numerous
“Whereas it (modern science) does say that we are an accident in an indifferent universe, it also says that we are a rare accident and thus not pointless.”
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“The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.”
― The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
― The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
“Unless you are intellectually numb, you can’t escape the allure of the quantum, the tantalizing possibility that we are immersed in mystery, forever bound within the shores of the Island of Knowledge. Unless you are intellectually numb, you can’t escape the awe-inspiring feeling that the essence of reality is unknowable.”
― The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
― The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
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