And Then I Thought I Was a Fish Quotes

“the whole process and state of alienation could be short-circuited by appealing to empathy, shared knowledge, and most people’s desire to talk about themselves.”
― Peter Hunt Welch, And Then I Thought I Was a Fish

“Lucretius poetic, or “everything is infinite randomness, life is awesome, let’s get drunk and fuck.” I don’t need a reason to live, I just need access to booze and sex, and that’s motivating enough. However,”
― Peter Welch, And Then I Thought I Was a Fish

“The spiritual revelations that tell people to be nice to one another and live in harmony were unnecessary for me because I always thought that: at first just because I was nice to people and wanted them to be nice to me, now because a meaningless and unknowable universe all but demands that conscious beings care for one another as we traverse the space between ignorance. Only total ignorance of all flavors of knowledge, or an ingrained submissiveness to authority and alienation, could lead a person to think the universe is not a motion of energy that includes us all, whether they simply know it, or simply feel it.”
― Peter Hunt Welch, And Then I Thought I Was a Fish

“I don't believe things have a reason. A reason is a map from an arbitrary cause to an arbitrary end. Everything having a reason is the same as nothing having a reason; the only difference is we are slave to the reason in the former situation, and we forge the reason in the latter. It doesn't make a difference what the situation really is, but I would prefer to think I defined my reasons, and they exist in me and everyone I can convince to believe me.”
― Peter Hunt Welch, And Then I Thought I Was a Fish