As things turn out this time around, I have to admit that it's not that bad at all turning 61 years old, although thirty years ago I might have thought otherwise. To have been able to be a part of everything is something for which I can be thankful for the rest of my life. Penc...
I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms. — Stephen Jay Gould 3 Making the...
Wanting to know what the meaning of life is can be compared to opening a humungous can of worms:question after question comes spilling out. Pretty soon, we’re curled up in the fetal position choking on a hugeexistential crisisgrub. Sound macabre? That’s not half of it. Wondering “what...
Notice how the movie manages to slip in one of the great answers to the question of the meaning of life and everyone immediately ignores it.It’s as ifthey can’t hear the answer at alland so they go back to worrying about the mundane. That’s because we’re literally wired to believ...
“Am I dead? Am I still alive?”“Those aren’t the questions you should be asking.” (Care ofAdult Swim) At the heart of “Rick and Morty” is achoice: Will you crumple in despair knowing the terrifying truth thatlife is totally meaninglessor will you saddle up the universe andstrike...
of “how our lives fit into the grand scheme of things” (66). These express some but not all of the existential interests that I distill from the recent debates over the meaning of life/meaning in life in § 3. Moreover, in the introduction to his volumeSpirituality and the Good Life...
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42. “The trouble with absurdism is that it dances with fate around the quicksand of nihilism.”— Joe Kincheloe Related240 Inspirational Perseverance Quotes for Life's Toughest Times 43. “I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”—Os...
36. “Brilliant. You reject your own nose because it represents the glitter of commercialism. Why didn’t I think of that? Cut, print, moving on.”– The Grinch 37. “This is the loudest snow I’ve ever heard in my life.”– The Grinch ...
This is heavily misquoted, the original quote is "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" the literal meaning is that blood shed in battle bonds soldiers more strongly than simple genetics. The way it can logically be inferred today is "bonds through life and hard...