For while scientist and logician dissect and analyze, the mystic looks for meaning in the whole. - Alan Watts

[N]othing that is isolated can live, since the two most important characteristics of life are circulation and change.

For if we do not know even how we manage to be conscious and intelligent, it is most rash to assume that we know what the role of conscious intelligence will be, and still more that it is competent to order the world.

[O]ur feelings are not fixed, unrelated states, but slowly or rapidly swinging motions such that a perpetuity of joy would be as meaningless as the notion of swinging only to the right.