It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.