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Thing can only be what they are. (Les choses ne peuvent êtres que ce qu'elles sont.)

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For an instant, before being drowned by entropy, we can understand entropy.

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Plank's constant is reality's bridge over infinity.

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To read a book is to let other people inhabit you.

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The analysis of myth should not center on what it says but on what it does.

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A poetry of reality.

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The limit of consciousness is as a manifestation of an unconscious world.

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We are not necessarily aware of our deepest convictions.

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Every second the world is struck by four and a half pounds of sunlight.

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We are fed by the observation of the world.

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Mathematics is contained within the world.

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Only my past and future are finite.

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Probabilities are inevitable.

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Intention is only the most superficial part of will.

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A bird's song, sounding beautiful to you is a warning to other birds in a constant territorial struggle; a tree growing majestically is trying to block sunlight and kill other trees (...) This field, as the whole world, is an incessant war zone, for heaven is and has always been a battlefield; so give thanks to all those who have hurt you, they stripped away your illusions.

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Probabilities are links among possible worlds.

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The world is sustained by infinity.

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The Dead Man Shaft, Lascaux

According to one hypothesis, paintings of animals and geometric forms in paleolithic caves are representations of ecstatic visions brought about by shamanistic practices. The painting in the Shaft of the dead man is exceptional; one proposed possibility is that it is a portrait of a shaman having a vision. Furthermore, and if it is an auto-portrait, we might have the first evidence of auto-recursive thinking in the paleolithic; not a representation of a man having a vision but a man representing himself having a vision.

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You find the unite of time, you find the building block of a painting's space.

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Attention holds the world.

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You find the unit of time you find the envelope.

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Fundamental laws of nature must be conditions of existence. "The world can only be so."

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Fundamental laws of nature must be conditions of existence. "The world can only be so."

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A polyphonic conception of the self.

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Words are configurations.

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Opère à partire de ton ignorance parce qu'elle est la vrai foundation de ton savoir.

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To say that something is inexpressible is to say something about language not about the thing itself.

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La pire des calamité c'est de vivre après sa fin.

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Monism takes the artistic activity from invention to discovery.

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Monism takes the artistic activity from invention to discovery.

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Observation of quantum paradox is where the world turns I.

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"L'univers est un dieu que la raison vénère." (Stéphanie Jabre)

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To reflect upon non-being is senseless; but senselessness itself is the background against which we delimit ourselves. Without reflecting upon it we have no borders and conversely, no intuition of the totality beyond such borders.

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Whatever describes both being and non-being presupposes being.

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Cosmology will fail until it accounts for being; if being is ungraspable, and being is the foundation of reality, then perhaps reality itself is ungraspable.

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Whatever you reduce the world to there is constantly something that escapes; the act of reduction itself.

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Possession is an attempt to solidify a fluxing world.

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L'art pour moi est inglorieux.

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Inhibitions are necessary.

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We are the world's dream.

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Ideas are matter reflecting on itself.

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Even Mathematics must be symbolized materially.

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One should look at oneself as a constant act of impersonal creation.

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The motivation but also greatest error of introspection is to search for a psychological unmoved mover.

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The world is both matter and symbol.

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Follow the mind's material trail.

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The "I" is an impersonal event.

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The physical expressions of mind are its totality.

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It is the particularity of theism to see symbols as things produced outside the world, i.e. without investment from the world.

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The production of symbols is a material investment.

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Consciousness is anchored in matter; it can only reflect on itself through material symbols.

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We inhabit the world as we inhabit our thoughts. (Or, when we inhabit the world we inhabit our thoughts.)

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Matter is a form of organization.

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Symbols are organization of matter reflecting on itself.

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The sensible world is the anchor of intelligence. Intelligence manifests materially.

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Percevoir la pensée comme manifestation dans le sensible.

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The universe is constantly moving towards what it is not.

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To consider zero as a thing is an inevitability of language.

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A pragmatic question : if belief in an unreal world was more pragmatically efficient than the belief in a real one, which one would be true?

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En ce que je m'ignore je me subis.

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Decadence is the triumph of what will never be.

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Violence should tend towards elegance.

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Mathematics operates with barely a whisper, its gentleness is surprising.

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The present is at the edge between order and entropy.

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Speed is form.

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Relativism and theism coincide.

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An axiom is that which can only be conceived through itself.

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whatever is, is already not itself.

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Awareness is self-exiting.

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If totality was to exist it would cease to be.

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Totality cannot exist; existence is self-exiting and as such, by definition, partial.

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Everything which exists, exists in something else.

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Attention is repressive; elements of the mind remain in control by remaining out of focus.

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The I is an act not an identity.

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Awareness is an indication of constraints.

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Universal propositions are expressions of particular moods.

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Reality is constraint over purpose.

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On purposefully ceasing to be.

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We are a purpose. When purpose ceases we cease to be.

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Reality is constraint.

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The world can only be perfect.

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Two exercises in nihilism; to consider the utter perfection that follows from the universe's purposelessness and reflect on the illusion of transcendental purpose.

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Nihilism is to consider purpose as purposeless.

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Everything is a perfect expression of its own conditions. Imperfection is only related to purpose.

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Why does mind give us the illusion of self-control?

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Self-definition is self-submission.