Machine Dreaming and Consciousness

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

— Doris Lessing

“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”

— Karl Popper

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

— Leo Rosten

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours.”

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“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

— Simone Weil

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

— Albert Camus

“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens