Figuring Forward in an Uncertain World
Through our own eyes, we are everything—e.g., when we die, the whole world disappears. So to most people (and to other species) dying is the worst thing possible, and it is of paramount importance that we have the best life possible. However, when we look down on ourselves through the eyes of nature we are of absolutely no significance. It is a rea
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The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence: Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think
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It never ceases to stagger that some stroke of chance in the early history of the universe set into motion the Rube Goldberg machine of events that turned atoms born in the first stars into you — into this temporary clump of borrowed stardust that, for the brief interlude between not having existed and no longer existing, gets to have ideas and ice... See more
All life is a dance of terror and beauty. Heaven and earth do not care about us; the universe is, ultimately, too grand, too inhumanly scaled.
Laozi • Laozi's Dao De Jing
“Look down from above on the countless herds of men and their countless solemnities, and the infinitely varied voyagings in storms and calms, and the differences among those who are born, who live together, and die. And consider, too, the life lived by others in olden time, and the life of those who will live after thee, and the life now lived amon
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