Identity is invariably false to facts.

We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

One would have to say "in the end everything is a gag, etc" because everything is infinitely more than just a gag. The same applies to other "is"-statements such as "Laughter is an instant vacation"

I think therefore I seem to be.

It seems evident that everything which exists in nature, is natural, no matter how simple or complicated a phenomenon it is; and on no occasion can the so-called 'supernatural' be anything else than a completely natural law, though it may, at the moment, be above and beyond the present understanding.

A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.