#metaphysics

"One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself."

"If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

"Time is the Mind of Space."

"The menu is not the meal."

"We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself."

"Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?"

"...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable."

"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

"Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another."

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

"Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever his heart required. For Sorweel, belief and want always seemed like ropes too short to bind together, forcing him to play the knot as a result."

"For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?"

"In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works."

"The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid."

"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."

"Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul."

"if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like"

"I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain."

"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."