“The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.” WaySeemsLife IsAnimalMoralClearEthicsClaimsStriveExtraordinaryBehaveMeaning Of LifeOrganizedGenesLiving ThingsOrganized ReligionAnimals In Nature Author:Bill Nye
“Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.” MenLittlesLastsNamesSleepFameWasteGloryClaimsStriveDustToilStrifeSplendidMarbleMockeryTransientPedestal Author:Andrew Jackson Downing
“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.” IfsThinkingWorldLifeTwoSocialVoiceAnswersAliveEqualUniqueImportanceClaimsStriveComplicatedBillionsIntense Book:Atonement Source: Atonement
“There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.” BrainTalentClaimsStriveDenyIndifferenceDesperateMediocrityOriginalityBehaviourVulgarFashionableNormalityEccentricityFlamboyant Author:Katherine Dunn