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As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

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Thomas Nagel

The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.

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I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

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If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.

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We are an episode between two oblivions.

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Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

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Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

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