The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.
Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.
Now I understand,” said the last man.
And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.
A country song is a song about life.
I have friends from rock stars to Rastas; I don't even know what an unexpected friend is.
We need to be aware of all different forms of brainwashing and radicalization.
Is there anything else you need to tell me?” Every time I look at you, I have to put a leash on myself. “No.