existentialism
... See more“And this is just the local scene; a minor scuffle, a minidrama. We’re caught up in a universe of collision and drift, the long slow ripples of the first Big Bang as the cosmos breaks apart; the closest galaxies smash together, and then those that are left scatter and flee one another until each is alone and there’s only space, an expansion
... See more“And we stand there gaping. And in time we come to see that not only are we on the sidelines of the universe but that it’s of a universe of sidelines, that there is no centre, just a giddy mass of waltzing things, and that perhaps the entirety of our understanding consists of an elaborate and ever-evolving knowledge of our own extraneousness, a