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

“Even the slightest trace of piety in us ought to make us feel that a God who cures a headcold at the right moment or tells us to get into a coach just as a downpour is about to start is so absurd a God he would have to be abolished even if he existed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“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

“Релігія, мораль, вітчизна — перепони, які сама звела перед собою нужденна, полохлива людина, аби забезпечити собі спокійне животіння.”
― Нікос Казандзакіс, Zorba the Greek