Paul

“silk tissue instead of lenses in the frames, so that the landscape appeared through a fine veil that muted its colors, and the weight of the world dissolved before your eyes.”
― W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz

“Our conventional sense of self is an illusion; positive emotions, such as compassion and patience, are teachable skills; and the way we think directly influences our experience of the world.”
― Sam Harris

“we cannot think of any object apart from the possibility of its connexion with other things.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Language can be used only very obliquely of things outside the physical world, not even metaphorically, since all it knows to do—according to the nature of the physical world—is to treat of ownership and its relations.”
― Franz Kafka, Aphorisms