“No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.” LongSelfMemoriesEternalIntellectualMereFactorsChainsAncestorAncestryAllegoryChained Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.” SelfProductsDirectFiftyFortyAncestorStrictLinkedContinuation Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"” NeedsSaidSelfSeemsValuesKnowledgeGroupsFieldsDemandIsolatedEvidentSpecialistsSynthesis Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.” WorldSelfFound Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole... 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.” LifeSelfReasonWholeSeemsEarthMotherCertainExistencePiecesOrdinaryConsciousConvictionThis LifeFlatsMother Earth Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it...” WorldMindSelfMaterialsMaterial World Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.” MenHumansSelfStatesDiesIndividualGoalAbilityConsciousnessTeachStageDevelopmentPureEgoHappeningsIllusionUniversalStrivePossessionKarmaSeparationPreservesHinduismDharmaHuman DevelopmentMultiplicityVedantaMokshaCarrier Author:Erwin Schrodinger
