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Time is a slippery concept.
One does not seek, one does not ask; one simply is.
The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.
From Cosmos by Carl Sagan
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
From Cosmos by Carl Sagan
The search for God is an attempt to make sense of our experience.
From A History of God by Karen Armstrong
Life cannot be separated from the places in which it occurs.
The problems of philosophy are not abstract, but fundamental to our understanding of life.
The silence of a world without humans would be both haunting and liberating.
From The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
To be religious is to be aware of the depth of life and the wonder of existence.
From The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
Experience teaches us that we can never be certain of the future.
I think, therefore I am.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
From The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
In Gnostic belief, the material world is often seen as a prison for the soul.
From The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
We are made of star-stuff, and so is time.
From The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
To think is to be alive.
From Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
The distinction between subject and object is a human construction.
From The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
Death is the ultimate in the experience of living.
We are all made of stardust.
Life is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
To be human is to be fragile.
Every human being is a philosopher.
From Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
The brain is not just a machine; it is a living organism.
The struggle to find meaning is a fundamental part of the human experience.
From Why Religion? by Elaine Pagels
To me, the most fascinating thing about being a corpse is that you can’t do anything.
We are not just observers of the universe; we are participants.
From The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku
We are all made of star stuff.
There is no true life except the life of the mind.
The act of watching a whale breach the surface is a reminder of the beauty that exists beyond our own lives.
The challenge of our time is to find a way to live together despite our differences.
From The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
In a fast-paced world, we risk losing touch with our deeper selves.
Life is a series of events, and it’s up to us to find meaning.
From The Stranger by Albert Camus
The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.
From Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Your passions can coexist without conflict.
From The Multi-Hyphen Life by Emma Gannon
The mystery of life isn't a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
From Dune by Frank Herbert
Each religion, in its own way, is a response to the fundamental questions of human existence.
From The World's Religions by Huston Smith
We are all part of a grand story.
Philosophy, as I see it, is an attempt to answer fundamental questions about the nature of reality.
Religious man lives in a world that is not limited to the natural world.
The quest for meaning is an integral part of being human.
From The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
The existence of consciousness is undeniable.
From The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
From The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
In the end, the only thing that matters is that you have lived your life fully.
From The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
From The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
Care is the being of Dasein.
From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Jesus’ message was not about the afterlife; it was about life here and now.
I think, therefore I am.
If there's nothing very strange going on, there's nothing very strange going on.
The sacred is not separate from the world but interwoven into the fabric of existence.
From The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
We are not only a part of the universe; we are the universe.
Religious man is not a stranger to the world, but he is not only a part of it; he is a part of another world.
The absurd is born out of this confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.
From The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Human beings are drawn to the transcendent, but this search can lead to conflict.
Myth is much more than a story; it is a truth that we live by.
From The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Understanding the elements can lead to understanding the universe and our place in it.
From The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
We are all made of star-stuff.
From The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
In the end, we are all searching for something.
From Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Every human being is a part of the universe.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
From The Essential Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi
Understanding is not a matter of knowledge but of being.
From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Being is the indeterminate immediacy.
Religions were born to help us cope with the human condition.
The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42.
The human body is a fragile vessel.
Some elements are more than just chemistry; they are part of our lives.
From The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
I can't see how you can have a world without a voice.
There is no such thing as an unphilosophical man.
We are all made of stardust, a connection to the universe.
From The Cosmic Code by Heinz R. Pagels
Religion is not a set of doctrines but a way of being in the world.
From The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.
From The Stranger by Albert Camus
It is the struggle for existence that drives evolution.
From The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
To be is to be perceived.
A building is alive, it is a living thing.
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
From Cosmos by Carl Sagan
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
You are made of stardust.
What if, at the end of our lives, we were to realize that we had not lived at all?
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
From Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Nothing is ever truly forgotten, and nothing is ever truly lost.
From The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
To question is to engage in the dialogue of existence.
From The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb
The quest for meaning is the essence of being.
From The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman
Our quest for knowledge is driven by an innate curiosity about the nature of existence.
From The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
Life without philosophy is life without meaning.
From The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
I wanted to be in the midst of the chaos, and I wanted to know the truth.
The past is not dead; it is not even past.
Eternity is a long time. But, at least it’s a long time.
Philosophy can be defined as the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
Death is not the end; it is the end of a particular way of being.
Humanity will transcend biology and transform into a new form of existence.
From The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
The only time I feel alive is when I’m playing.
From Open by Andre Agassi
We are not mere spectators of our lives.
From The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman
It is remarkable that we are here at all.
Religion, as a phenomenon of human life, is a fact, and a mighty fact.
The pursuit of truth is an essential part of the human experience.
We are all a little bit cancerous.
The new physics reveals a universe that is alive and conscious.
From The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
We are all part of the same chemical universe.
From The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Life is a series of accidents.
I feel like I have been living in the past.
From The Stranger by Albert Camus