The wake doesn't drive the ship

There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.