It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order – and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don’t have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I’m a little more respectful of ants.
It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.
Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level.
In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
Irrationality is the square root of all evil.
No reference is truly direct – every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It’s just a question of how implicit it is.