Where there is a fight for survival,

there is consciousness of the self and the other.

The ultimate origins will always hide behind an impenetrable wall of paradox,

impenetrable by mathematics anyway.

Before number, there was none.

Unbecome,

rise above yourself,
and become again,
at every moment.

The army is, some guy you don't know sends you out to whack some other guy you don't know.

(Donnie Brasco)

While we dream of a great hi-tech future,

we may already be living within a future dream.

Knowable contains unknowable,

unknowable contains knowable.

Speak softly, and carry a big stick.

(Theodore Roosevelt)

For there to be relativity,

there must be uncertainty,

for there to be relative,
there must be absolute,
for there to be certain,
there must be uncertain.

Once more into the fray

Into the last good fight I'll ever know
Live and die on this day
Live and die on this day

(The Grey)

To act is easy. To think is hard.

But the hardest thing in the world is to think in accordance with your acting.

To think is easy. To act is hard.

But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory;

within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

(Greg Egan)