Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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.