Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

No self is of itself alone.

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.