61 Quotes by Bernardo Kastrup

Love nurtures but also smothers, depending on the dose and perspective.

Truth-seeking is the path to self-annihilation and thus to liberation.

Partake in reality as an actor in a theatrical play: with attention, dedication and an open heart. But never believe yourself to be your character, for characters spend their lives chasing their own shadows, whereas actors embody the meaning of existence.

The prize at the end of the path is handsome: the freedom to make the deliberate, guiltless choice of which untruth to live. Exercising this choice wisely is the art of life.

Scientism today is doing what the church did in the fifteenth century: forcing theory to fit a predetermined metaphysics.

What is the world for if not to evoke and reflect back to us, as mirror, the obfuscated aspects of ourselves?

Lost and afraid in a crowd of our own alienated facets turned other, we create a cultural narrative of pure projection to try to impose some order onto the chaos

All explanations are myths whose truth-value we assign subjectively. They are true only insofar as we say that they are true. They are stories we conjure up and tell ourselves in order to make sense of the disconnected, context-free phantasmagoria of present perception.

Past and future are myths: stories in the mind.