existentialism
... 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
... 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