> This is why so many philosophers are baffled by reality. They take experiences which cannot be completely reduced to thought, think about them, and then find their thoughts perplexing.pic.twitter.com/5x4FtqTmrr
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> Although he may reason himself to the limit of the known, he cannot cross over. To do so does not require a different kind of knowledge, but a different kind of personpic.twitter.com/njIivnDWVM
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> Ego can hardly be said to experience at all, instantly transporting whatever happens into the modal warehouse of the self, where it is stored, evaluated and used to get a better job, lord it over newcomers, or gas on about what it knows or what has happened to it.pic.twitter.com/Ymmczj1lbf
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> A literal description of love betrays love in the same way that a photograph of a sunset makes it look trivial and hollow > The more facts (e.g. ‘life hacks’) I acquire about living, the better able I am to livepic.twitter.com/XzNLn3x9cf
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> like saying that analysis of the notes that Beethoven wrote on his scores has more to teach us than the actual experience of the music itselfpic.twitter.com/UAAybhw29K
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> In fact because low-quality work relies on signposts, it will be preferred by ego ...... only when the artist starts producing derivative work — cliched versions of the original inspiration — does it become more palatable to ego, and he achieves some successpic.twitter.com/FlUkSCQlvB
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> I turn up the torch, brighter and brighter, expanding my view further and further, but the light is so bright it now kills what it is directed at, petrifying the trees, shrivelling up the plantspic.twitter.com/PWpNQ1IZJL
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