We look for the Secret – the Philosopher’s Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, ‘God’ or whatever…and all the time it is carrying us about…It is the human nervous system itself.
…when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
…an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called model agnosticism and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, The map is not the territory. Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as The menu is not the meal.