Thomas

“Like the octopi, our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts. This is the essence of the more perfect Logos envisioned by the Hellenistic polymath Philo Judaeus—a Logos, an indwelling of the Goddess, not heard but beheld. Hans Jonas explains Philo Judaeus's concept as follows:
A more perfect archetypal logos, exempt from the human duality of sign and thing, and therefore not bound by the forms of speech, would not require the mediation of hearing, but is immediately beheld by the mind as the truth of things.”
― Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

“My birth was my first misfortune.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown”
― Immanuel Kant