The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.
I'm constantly surprised by... an orange will roll off a table, and I'll catch it before I knew it was falling. Something happens there. We could write it off and say, 'Subconsciously I knew that was happening,' but there's so many things every day - I'm amazed by how little we know.
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
A concept is stronger than a fact.
When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.