“We imagine we’re seeing the Universe as it is; in fact, we’re looking through a kaleidoscope, mistaking colored glass for reality.” 

“Memories light the corners of my mind, misty watercolored memories…scattered pictures of…the way we were.” (Streisand)

“Effectively, consciousness effects/reflects a ‘fold’ in spacetime that invalidates the familiar Euclidean metric.”

“I think Camus gets himself into some serious trouble here…he lets dreaded ‘objective values’ slip back into his system.”

“Going forward, you might want to tone down that male  machismo, just a bit.” 

“Ask a chatbot if it’s conscious, and it will likely say no—unless it’s Anthropic’s Claude 4.”

“…The evangelists outlined an economic doctrine challenging today’s Liberal (capitalist), Marxist (socialist), and Islamic (iqtisad) models.”

“In just over 300 pages, this book manages to recycle just about every bad idea since stale bread...”

“Sartre said that Hell was ‘other people’; he was wrong…Other people are precisely what gives life its meaning, its purpose, its value…”

“The recognition of consciousness in various non-human species has put the law student’s fame in a whole new perspective.”

“Nothing has a cause… Why should one event cause another? How would one event cause another? How could it?”

“For the most part events do not happen randomly. We’re told that every thing has a cause. Trouble is, the cause of every thing is everything.”