004876

x is like y Animals or insects encountering humans is like Humans encountering aliens from spacetime Your turn.

004878

“The linguistic urge to derive types is not ‘natural’, and the categories imposed upon our minds by those implicit in our languages are at once traps, as when we are unconscious of their incompleteness, and wings, as when we begin to understand both...

004879

“And so I did not tell them anything about what actually occurred, even though it happened to all three of us, and, primarily, to them. I do not know what the explanation they made up was, but I do know they would never have believed what actually happened,...

004883

“Everything has a telephone number, and each one is unique even though there is a word for this number which is not precisely a number in the classical sense, and yet can be ‘figured’ as such. The number is love. But as I said, it is always unique;...

004884

One must do away with all thinking in push hands. Intimacy is not thought, and love may win where power fails. And if not love, then emptiness that moves and is, itself, alive.