when we wonder where the world came from--and then discuss possible answers--reason is in a sense 'on hold.' For it has no sensory material to process, no experience to make use of, because we have never experienced the whole of the great reality that we are a tiny part of
We are--in a way--a tiny part of the ball that comes rolling across the floor. So we can't know where it came from.

Autor: Jostein Gaarder