We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
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Brian Cox
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or,...
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Oliver Sacks
True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live
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Albert Schweitzer
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
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James P. Carse
... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before...
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Ki Longfellow
More Quotes By Philip K. Dick
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of...
To live is to be haunted.
If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.
This is a mournful discovery.1) Those who agree with you are insane2) Those who do not agree with you are in power.
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And...
