A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.
We see what we believe rather than what we see.
If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.
The menu is not the meal.
Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.