Perhaps The Most Concise Summary Of Enlightenment

Hofstadter's Law: It Always Takes Longer Than You Expect, Even When You Take Into Account Hofstadter's Law

Perhaps The Most Concise Summary Of Enlightenment Would Be: Transcending Dualism . ... Dualism Is The Conceptual Division Of The World Into Categories ... Human Perception Is By Nature A Dualistic Phenomenon - Which Makes The Quest For Enlightenment An Uphill Struggle, To Say The Least.

Reductionism Is Merciless.

The Nice Thing About Having A Brain Is That One Can Learn, That Ignorance Can Be Supplanted By Knowledge, And That Small Bits Of Knowledge Can Gradually Pile Up Into Substantial Heaps.

I Would Proclaim That The Vast Majority Of What [say, Scientific American] Is True-yet My Ability To Defend Such A Claim Is Weaker Than I Would Like. And Most Likely The Readers, Authors, And Editors Of That Magazine Would Be Equally Hard Pressed To Come Up With Cogent, Non-technical Arguments Convincing A Skeptic Of This Point, Especially If Pitted Against A Clever Lawyer Arguing The Contrary. How Come Truth Is Such A Slippery Beast?