At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of a cosmic eye, a universe in which all was chaos and void came to include hunches, beliefs, sentiments, raw sensations, pains, emotions, wishes, ideas, images, inferences, the feel of rubber, Schadenfreude, and the taste of banana ice cream.

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles , military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.