You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but fina… - Alan Watts

living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other.

If everything that exists is an action of God, he must have an alarming humility, since he is not above employing his whole being to produce an ordinary housefly.

Part of man's frustration is that he has become accustomed to expect language and thought to offer explanations which they cannot give.