![schrodinger quotes schrodinger quotes](https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/4955017-Terry-Pratchett-Quote-Everyone-s-heard-of-Erwin-Schrodinger-s.jpg)
You may come to a distant country, lose sight of all your friends, may all but forget them you acquire new friends, you share life with them as intensely as you ever did with your old ones. And you will, on close introspection, find that what you really mean by 'I' is that ground-stuff upon which they are collected. “What is this 'I'? If you analyse it closely you will, I think, find that it is just a little bit more than a collection of single data (experiences and memories), namely the canvas upon which they are collected. thousands of years ago? And even if this is so, why are you not your brother, why is your brother not you, why are you not one of your distant cousins? What justifies you in obstinately discovering this difference - the difference between you and someone else - when objectively what is there is the same?” Was he someone else? Was it not you yourself? What is this Self of yours? What was the necessary condition for making the thing conceived this time into you, just you and not someone else? What clearly intelligible scientific meaning can this 'someone else' really have? If she who is now your mother had cohabited with someone else and had a son by him, and your father had done likewise, would you have come to be? Or were you living in them, and in your father's father. Like you he was begotten of man and born of woman. A hundred years ago, perhaps, another man sat on this spot like you he gazed with awe and yearning in his heart at the dying light of the glaciers. For thousands of years men have striven and suffered and begotten and women have brought forth in pain. “What is it that has called you so suddenly out of nothingness to enjoy for a brief while a spectacle which remains quite indifferent to you? The conditions for your existence are almost as old as the rocks. The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment indeed, one might almost say that it is the fact that anything is experienced and encounter at all.” The man who has never at any time felt consciously struck by the extreme strangeness and oddity of the situation in which we are involved, we know not how, is a man with no affinity for philosophy - and has, by the way, little cause to worry. “It was said by Epicurus, and he was probably right, that all philosophy takes its origin from philosophical wonder.
![schrodinger quotes schrodinger quotes](https://quotecites.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/quotes_cites_95069.jpg)
For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now the present is the only thing that has no end.” And not merely 'some day': now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over. As surely she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to new striving and suffering.
![schrodinger quotes schrodinger quotes](https://pics.me.me/thumb_the-scientific-picture-of-the-real-world-around-me-is-56405801.png)
You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. Or, again, in such words as 'I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world'. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear: Tat tvam asi, this is you. “Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance.