"We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it..."

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Source : Neil Strauss (2011). “Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it”, p.398, Canongate Books

Neil Strauss

#Matter Quotes #Machines Quotes #Now And Then Quotes

“Instead of being a student of a (given) field, I would like you to be the field.”
“We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.”
“What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?”
“An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written,”
“The tyranny of Harvard and Yale is another thing that transcends this problem of the set point. But what's so striking about [Louis] Brandeis is he had this vision of cultural pluralism that completely gave the lie to the idea that there was any inconsistency between being Jewish or being a woman or being African American and being fully American.”

Source : "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.
“We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be.”
“Learn how to let go and say a good good-bye.”
“It has always irked me as improper that there are still so many people for whom the sky is no more than a mass of random points of light. I do not see why we should recognize a house, a tree, or a flower here below and not, for example, the red Arcturus up there in the heavens as it hangs from its constellation Bootes, like a basket hanging from a balloon.”

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