Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions by Phil Zuckerman

Author:Phil Zuckerman [Zuckerman, Phil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of “world history”—yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die. One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist; and when it is done for again, nothing will have happened.

The second quote comes from an essay titled “Transcendence Without God,” written by contemporary philosopher Anthony Simon Laden. It kindles Amber’s sense of meaning amid life in this remote, fleeting corner of the universe:

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