One could probably liken the task of improvising a six-part fugue to the playing of sixty simultaneous blindfold games of chess, and winning them all

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.

Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

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.

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

Reductionism is merciless.

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.