“He was only aware of the conflict that was slowly destroying his integrity—the conflict between truth, and concealment of truth.”
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
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“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.”
― 2010: Odyssey Two
― 2010: Odyssey Two
“The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.”
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
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