“Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.”
“One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of god’s existence.”
“but music only exists because the pauses exist, and sentences only exist because the blank spaces exist.”
“For me, beauty is always retreating from one’s grasp: the only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed.”
“the past exists only in yourmind,” he said. “Likewise, the future exists only in yourmind because it has not happened.”
“I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary – not reality, which is only a secondary consideration.”