You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky; Notes from Underground
We are not special.
We are not crap or trash either.
We just are.
We just are, and what happens just happens.
-Chuck Palahniuk; Fight Club
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
-C. S. Lewis; Mere Christianity
7. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein; Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
-Albert Einstein; The World as I See It
