The organism feeds on negative entropy.

Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’. Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.