Aphorisms

**1**
A poet is an observer who comments.
**6**
Science is a direction towards the specific; art is a direction towards the individual. Science explains; art exemplifies.
13
Any observation occurs on three levels: object, perception of object, perception. These roughly correspond to what it is, what you think it is, what you think.
**8**
Time is an eternal present forming and re-forming experience in the paradox of change.
**27**
Civilization in any age is a movement from the automatic to the voluntary. Progress, on the other hand, is a refinement in technology.
**40**
I imagine three planes of existence: awareness, knowledge, music.
**48**
The universe is an idea we inhabit.