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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.

I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.