"You can't discover that the brain is a digital computer. You can only interpret the brain as a digital computer."

-- John Searle

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“That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.”
“A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.”
“Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name.”
“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”
“Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to another, from one house to another, and to the whole House of Israel throughout the generations.”

Source : "Always Look on the Bright Side: Celebrating Each Day to the Fullest". Book by Allen Klein, p. 93, 2013.
“We dream â€” it is good we are dreaming â€” It would hurt us â€” were we awake â€” But since it is playing â€” kill us, And we are playing â€” shriek â€” What harm? Men die â€” externally â€” It is a truth â€” of Blood â€” But we â€” are dying in Drama â€” And Drama â€” is never dead â€” Cautious â€” We jar each other â€” And either â€” open the eyes â€” Lest the Phantasm â€” prove the Mistake â€” And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite â€” With just an Age â€” and Name â€” And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian â€” It's prudenter â€” to dream â€””
“Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.”
“To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.”

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