“What would the differences be between the world in which I existed (however briefly) and a different world where almost everything is exactly the same, except in this parallel universe I never existed? It is all those differences, however minuscule, that make up my existence.” PhilosophyExistenceIdentityIndividualityMeaningExistentialSelf ReflectionIntrospectiveParallel WorldsCosmic Perspective Book:If Cats Disappeared from the World Source: If Cats Disappeared from the World
“A human being can never really grieve their own death. Death is always something that happens to other people around them.” PhilosophyDeathGriefHuman NaturePerspectiveReflectionMortalityExistentialIntrospectiveEmotional Insight Book:If Cats Disappeared from the World Source: If Cats Disappeared from the World
“Every day people sleep, wake up, work, and eat according to the established set of rules we call time. In other words, we set our lives by the clock. Human beings went through the trouble of inventing rules that imposed limits on their lives, boxing them up into hours, days, and years. And then they invented clocks to make time’s rule over us even more precise. The fact that we have these rules means that we’ve given up some of our freedom. And yet we’ve surrounded ourselves with reminders of that loss of freedom - by hanging clocks on walls and dotting them around our houses. And as if that weren’t enough, we make sure that there’s a clock wherever we go, no matter what we’re doing. We’ve even felt the need to wrap our bodies up in time by going so far as to wrap it around our wrists.” PhilosophyTimeFreedomHuman NatureReflectionRoutineExistentialModern LifeSocial CommentaryCritique Of Society Book:If Cats Disappeared from the World Source: If Cats Disappeared from the World