“All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?” IfsShouldLife IsStarsExistenceStruggleSpreadCeaseStruggle For ExistenceLife Is A Struggle Author:Ken MacLeod
“Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty; / its existence is too much; / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.” StarsExistenceConsciousnessBeautyToo MuchPiecesTearsStrangeFruitWavePoison Book:Observations: Poems Source: Observations: Poems
“The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity . . . may become a star!” MenHumansMayStarsExistenceWonderfulHuman NatureProveUltimateMereVerificationJean Jacques RousseauJacques Rousseau Author:Daniel J. Boorstin
“The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything youve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.” GivingLooksEarthStarsWhiteBehindsExistenceKnownMoonNormalPerceptionWindowBallsBlueEdgesFlightGalaxyThumbsThumbs UpBlue And White Author:Jim Lovell
“Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.” MenMindIdeasGodFallStarsExistenceSunObjectsProduceMoonEternalWorshipAll ThingsDown AndSensesInvisibleAddressesSensationsIdealismFalling DownHomageMoon And StarsSun MoonSun Moon And Stars Book:Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding Source: Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding
“All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out, a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts, you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams.” WorldBelieveI BelieveStarsWhiteExistenceTakenDressesWingsHeavyBeastFabricTrustworthyMessengersAway From You Author:Czeslaw Milosz
“Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.” WorldMindStillsSoulDreamHandsLightSpiritStarsHurtWalksExistenceYouthAll ThingsShiningIronAfarHope And FaithArcherBeen HurtWalk By FaithGuiding Stars Book:The Complete Works of William Hazlitt Source: The Complete Works of William Hazlitt
“Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep shallowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the world outside. They invent ingenious speculations and myths about the origin of the confining waters, of the sun and the sky and the stars above , and the meaning of their own existence. But they are wrong, always wrong because the world is too remote from ordinary experience to be merely imagined.” ThinkingWorldHumansStarsWaterBornNaturalExistenceWonderSunSkyOrdinaryIntelligentInstrumentsLongingPrisonFishesMythPoolReach OutTrappedSpeculationRestlessCognitiveIngeniousNatural ScienceAlways Wrong Author:E. O. Wilson