Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
matter / mystery / Nothingness / selves / stars
The stuff of which the world of our experience is composed is, in my belief, neither mind nor matter, but something more primitive than either. Both mind and matter seem to be composite, and the stuff of which they are compounded lies in a sense between the two, in a sense above them both, like a common ancestor.
experience / matter / mind / primitive / World
Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
Give me matter and i will build a world out of it.