"The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in."

Existence, Cosmos, Man

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"The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in."

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"In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing. And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential."

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"The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value."

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"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."

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"There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it."

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"And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud."

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"That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?''Yes' Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it.'Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."

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"What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!"

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"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."

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"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."

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"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."

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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."

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"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."

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"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."

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