Nature's God This is a statement derived from one in the Principia Discordia
“Until language has made sense of an experience, that experience is meaningless.”
Peter Farb (1929–1980) American academic and writer
Word Play (1974)
Context: Thinking is language spoken to oneself. Until language has made sense of an experience, that experience is meaningless.
David Baddiel (1964) British comedian, novelist and television presenter
From the novel "Whatever Love Means"
“What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.”
Colin Wilson book The Outsider
Source: The Outsider (1956), Chapter one, The Country of the Blind
“In life, he suffered from a sense of unreality, as do many Englishmen.”
Jorge Luis Borges book Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
Variant: In his lifetime, he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen; once dead, he is not even the ghost he was then.
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
“Some people seem quite destitute a sense of humour.”
George Grossmith book The Diary of a Nobody
The Diary of a Nobody
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Commencement Address at Kenyon College. Gambier, Ohio. May 21, 2005.
Essays
“I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.”
Louise Erdrich (1954) writer from the United States
“You’ve got to believe there’s some sort of sense in everything that crazies say.”
“Crazies?”
Fritz Leiber book Our Lady of Darkness
“All of us.”
Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 30 (p. 181)
