Jordan Dodson

“And now we know that this is the journey that must be made by every civilization: awakening inside a cramped cradle, toddling out of it, taking flight, flying faster and farther, and, finally, merging with the fate of the universe as one. The ultimate fate of all intelligent beings has always been to become as grand as their thoughts.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End

“The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.”
― William James, Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy

“they’d chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.”
― William James