Elisey Zhukovsky

“Intelligence is the ability to harness the powers of the surrounding world without destroying the said world.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

“It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.”
― Nikola Tesla

“Beings, things, and events do not exist in time: being, things, and events are times.”
― Dōgen

“And as for those parts that came from the earth, they shall return unto the earth again; and those that came from heaven, they also shall return unto those heavenly places. Whether it be a mere dissolution and unbinding of the manifold intricacies and entanglements of the confused atoms; or some such dispersion of the simple and incorruptible elements...”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations