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“Yet this should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world of ours, where, like faint glimmers of light in the dark, we have emerged for a moment from the nothingness of dark unconsciousness of material existence. We must make good the demands of reason and create a life worthy of ourselves and of the goals we only dimly perceive.”
― Milan M. Ćirković, The Great Silence: Science and Philosophy of Fermi's Paradox

“The essence of adventure lies in taking risks and exploring the unknown.”
― Susan Bassnett

“Human life, for Nietzsche, is ultimately a part of a kind of vast game…[which] is, so to speak, the only game in town….The nature of the game, he holds, establishes a standard for the evaluation of everything falling within its compass. The availability of this standard places evaluation on footing that is as firm as that on which the comprehension of life and the world stands.”
― Richard Schacht

“Nietzsche's The Antichrist was a response to the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf was a response to Lenin’s State and Revolution.”
― Ernst Nolte