Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

The Logos was both that which thought, and the thing which it thought: thinker and thought together. The universe, then, is thinker and thought, and since we are part of it, we as humans are, in the final analysis, thoughts of and thinkers of those thoughts.

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.