Quotes about the World
Believers say that the entire unimaginable hugeness of the Universe was made specifically for the human race - when atheists, by contrast, say that humanity is a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, an infinitesimal eyeblink in the vastness of time and space - and then, [...] believers accuse atheists of being arrogant.
Life is, objectively, meaningless; given the size and scope of the universe and our tiny role within it, it`s absurd to think that we might have any sort of cosmically vital role.
Reality is often very different from what it seems. The Earth appears to be flat but is in fact spherical. The sun seems to revolve in the sky when it is really we who are spinning.
The world is not like a platoon advancing at the pace of a single commander. It`s a network of events affecting each other.
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there`s any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.