Anomie Quote by Stanley Kubrick

“If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go…

— Stanley Kubrick

[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms;…

— Bertrand Russell

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

— Carl Sagan

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously…

— Murray Leinster

“When the sound and wholesome nature of man acts as an entirety, when he feels himself in the world as in a grand, beautiful,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the…

— Bertrand Russell

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age…

— Alain de Botton

It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that…

— William Hazlitt

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.

— Jacques Monod

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

— Werner Herzog

Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of…

— William Hazlitt