It's Easier To Be Original

[alternate Translation:] The Divine Spirit Found A Sublime Outlet In That Wonder Of Analysis, That Portent Of The Ideal World, That Amphibian Between Being And Not-being, Which We Call The Imaginary Root Of Negative Unity.

To Love Is To Find Pleasure In The Happiness Of Others.

I Agree With You That It Is Important To Examine Our Presuppositions, Throughly And Once For All, In Order To Establish Something Solid. For I Hold That It Is Only When We Can Prove All That We Bring Forward That We Perfectly Understand The Thing Under Consideration. I Know That The Common Herd Takes Little Pleasure In These Researches, But I Know Also That The Common Herd Take Little Pains Thoroughly To Understand Things.

If We Were Magically Shrunk And Put Into Someone's Brain While She Was Thinking, We Would See All The Pumps, Pistons, Gears And Levers Working Away And We Would Be Able To Describe The Workings Completely, In Mechanical Terms, Thereby Completely Describing The Thought Processes Of The Brain. But That Description Would Not Contain Any Mention Of Thought! It Would Contain Nothing But Descriptions Of Pumps, Pistons, Levers!

Of What Use Would It Be To You, Sir, To Become King Of China On Condition That You Forgot What You Have Been? Would It Not Be The Same As If God, At The Same Time He Destroyed You, Created A King In China?