“Life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall.”| The Marginalian
“We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.”| The Marginalian
“We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.”| The Marginalian
“To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [is to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art but also…| The Marginalian
“If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.”| The Marginalian
“It’s a wonderful idea: thoroughly conscious ignorance.”| The Marginalian
The euphoria experienced as you begin to fall in love, the pile of books bought but unread, the coffee “threefill,” and other lyrical linguistic delights.| The Marginalian