Gazham

“If I had the talent, say, to draw the visual field that is right infront of me, I would be able to see a picture of my visual field. But obviously this picture would not be my visual field but only another thing in my visual field. The same applies to the world: whenever we consider ourselves to have understood the world, we have only a copy or a picture of the world before us. We cannot grasp the world conceptually because there is no field of sense to which it belongs. The world does not appear on the stage of the world; it does not step up and introduce itself to us.”
― Markus Gabriel, Why the World Does Not Exist

“Put this way, almost every physical observable potentially conveys information. This definition would imply that "information" is present every time the values of two physical variables are correlated. But there is nothing profound about this, unless it is the appreciation of the interdependence of the different components of the physical world. And we already have measures of correlation. We can rename these "information", but a change of names that weakens the specificity of an idea is more likely to result in confusion than it is to bring about revolution in our conception of the world.”
― Lee Smolin, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

“All creative work strives for simplicity, for perfectly simple expression; and this means reaching down into the furthest depths of the recreation of life. But that is the most painful part of creative work: finding the shortest path between what you want to say or express and its ultimate reproduction in the finished image. The struggle for simplicity is the painful search for a form adequate to the truth you have grasped.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

“Man bemächtigt sich des Todes, indem man tötet.”
― Byung-Chul Han, Kapitalismus und Todestrieb. Essays und Gespräche