Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.