Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

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

If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.