In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

- Douglas Hofstadter

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful…

- Douglas Hofstadter

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's mu…

- Douglas Hofstadter

We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we attribute responsib…

- Douglas Hofstadter

I am the thought you are now thinking.

- Douglas Hofstadter

The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselv…

- Douglas Hofstadter

The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, yo…

- Douglas Hofstadter

You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charte…

- Douglas Hofstadter

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more …

- Douglas Hofstadter