"The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out."

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Source : Neal Asher (2009). “The Line of Polity”, p.261, Pan Macmillan

Neal Asher

#Afterlife Quotes #Comforting Quotes #Vision Quotes

“When I'm writing, I don't put faces on the characters. When I finish the first draft of the script, I start visualizing, and sometimes then I think about one actor.”
“Way too many people are trying to do the same thing with their lives.”
“Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.”
“People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.”
“I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.”
“There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.”

Source : "The neurons that shaped civilization". TEDIndia Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.
“Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.”

Source : Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution
“Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.”

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