Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

My journey in life, my footprints in the world.

Ethnic minorities were 10 times more likely than whites to eat at a table where they were the only representative of their race.

Tears are the safety value of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it .

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

The I is always in the field of the Other.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

My signature is the one that Hyun Joong hyung made for me five years ago, but I’m still using it.

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.