Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
“It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.”
Confessions of a Philosopher (1997)
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“Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
“Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.”
Alan Moore book Watchmen
Source: Watchmen
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
Context: I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor
Interview, The Paris Review No. 80, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/730/the-art-of-poetry-no-80-geoffrey-hill
“We are all children until our fathers die.”
Melissa Bank book The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Source: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Kurien Kunnumpuram (1931–2018) Indian theologian
Kunnumpuram, Kurien, 2011 “Theological Exploration,” Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies 14/2 (July-Dec 2011)
On God
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
volume I, chapter VIII: "Religion", page 313 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=331&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image <br class="br">The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)
“We do not die. Each human being is alone in the world.”
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
The Inferno (1917), Ch. XIV
Context: We do not die. Each human being is alone in the world. It seems absurd, contradictory to say this, and yet it is so. But there are many human beings like me. No, we cannot say that. In saying that, we set ourselves outside the truth in a kind of abstraction. All we can say is: I am alone.
And that is why we do not die.
“Each human being is a totality of the human life.”
Witness Lee (1905–1997) Chinese Christian preacher
The Vital Groups, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 978-1-57593-815-8