Human existence Quote by Thomas Ligotti

“The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations…

— George Steiner

“Human consciousness created objective existence and meaning, and man found his indispensable place in the great process of being.”

— Anthony Stevens

“In the course of our journey leading to Consciousness, our objective should not be creating a positive character, and thus a pleasant scenario, but…

— Frank M. Wanderer

“In some evolving civilizations, for reasons which we don't entirely understand, the evolution of consciousness is attended by a disaster of some sort which…

— Walker Percy

“We evolved haphazardly within a random universe; no purpose underpins us, no God watches over us, and no assured glorious future awaits us. We…

— Colin Feltham

“Our consciousness is pure when we are born, but with time it is infected and possessed by societal consciousness.”

— Debasish Mridha

“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes…

— Bertrand Russell

“It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's first natural…

— Marcel Proust

“Our estrangement from nature and the unconscious became entrenched roughly two thousand years ago, during the shift from the Age of the Great God…

— Terence McKenna

“This feeling that--contrary to the consciously philosophic and historical conception which proclaims unceasing and peaceful progress--one is experiencing a last brief, irretrievable intellectual prime…

— Gyorgy Lukács

“Modern nonreligious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.”

— Anonymous