The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independentl...y of all thinking, and thus antithetical to the sensible world.... The world of thought is the universal, the timeless and spaceless, the absolutely necessary, whereas the world of sense is the contingent, the changing and moving appearance which somehow indicates or symbolizes it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; s...eparate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eat cannon and cornflakes, that the lamb, Spaceless as snow, may spare the rational earth... (Weary of prodigies and the Holy Runt) A second prodigious, two-legged birth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »