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Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

by Ogi Ogas (Goodreads Author)

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May 01, 2022 02:06AM

“No single human being can contain the sum of all that human experience. At the least, it would shatter your personality. How can you hold on to the core of your reality in the midst of so many alternatives?”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

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“The ancients had a saying for this, vincit qui patitur, and it applied to the vanquished as well as to the victor. To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature’s ladder.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

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“Imprisoned for ten millennia inside its limitless mind, now finite. Now free.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

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“Layer by layer, that which separates us falls away, until I reach the center, the nameless region, the defenseless stronghold, an ageless, bottomless ache, the lonely singularity of his soul, unspoiled by time or experience, beyond thought, infinite.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

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“The fundamental flaw in humanity was its humanity. The useless, baffling, self-destructive human tendency to love, to empathize, to sacrifice, to trust, to imagine anything outside the boundaries of its own skin—these things had driven the species to the edge of destruction. Worse, this one organism threatened the survival of all life on Earth.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

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