tropicofpratek

“it is the continual effort of the beginning that creates the hoarded energy of the end;”
― Walter Bagehot, Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of natural selection and inheritance to political society

“Life is a school of probability.”
― Walter Bagehot

“You’re born, you take shit

get out in the world, you take more shit

climb a little higher, take less shit.

till one day you're in the rarefied atmosphere and you’ve forgotten what shit even looks like.

Welcome to the layer cake, son.”
― J. J. Connolly, Layer Cake

“As far as we can tell from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose. Our actions are not part of some divine cosmic plan, and if planet earth were to blow up tomorrow morning, the universe would probably keep going about its business as usual. As far as we can tell at this point, human subjectivity would not be missed. Hence any meaning that people inscribe to their lives is just a delusion.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind