“The universe is a perilous place. We do our best. Everything else is unimportant.”
Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 12, section 4 (p. 179)
“Often we lose sight of our place in the universe, some never knew at all just how miniscule we humans are compared to everything else.”
Galactic Perspective http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/05/04/galactic-perspective/, wattsupwiththat.com, May 4 2007.
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Context: I have made at worst some neat, precise and joyous little tales which prevaricate tenderly about the universe and veil the pettiness of human nature with screens of verbal jewelwork. It is not the actual world they tell about, but a vastly superior place where the Dream is realized and everything which in youth we knew was possible comes true. It is a world we have all glimpsed, just once, and have not ever entered, and have not ever forgotten. So people like my little tales.... Do they induce delusions? Oh, well, you must give people what they want, and literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.