There is strong archaeological evidence to show that with the birth of human consciousness there was born, like a twin, the impulse to transcend it.

There will always be those who must look into the dark in order to see.

Linear time has one claim to grandeur: it is the tragic aspect of Time

To endow clock time with numinous meaning <...> [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

Ruefully admitting we can neither remain children nor all become artists still less saints and mystics, we turn back, regretfully, but massively, to the time-ridden world.