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

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"

Whatever you may say something is, it is not!

If all people learned to think in the non Aristotelian manner of quantum mechanics, the world would change so radically that most of what we call "stupidity" and even a great deal of what we consider "insanity" might disappear, and the "intractable" problems of war, poverty and injustice would suddenly seem a great deal closer to solution.

The map is not the territory.

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.