Mind Painter
Tom B. Night
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There's nothing quite so terrifying as being unsure of your own sanity. All other concerns are downstream.”
“There were many slippery slopes to nihilism in this new world, and the higher up you were the easier it was to fall down one of them.”
“…a true utopia would have a one hundred percent suicide rate, where everyone dies precisely when and how they wish.”
“Would intelligent life evolve again on this planet, and if so would it have the means—like opposable thumbs or a way to store knowledge outside of brains—to build technology? Dolphins could have lived for eternity and never developed the capability to annihilate their species or the world, much less colonize another.”
“With a fixed amount of matter and energy in the universe, everything is a zero-sum game on some level.”
“We stood on the shoulders of giants, but we fell off.”
“Tragically ironic, isn't it? How nuclear weapons represent both our species' mastery over the very foundations of nature, as well as our utter inability to master our most primitive instincts.”
“There's a brute fact at the end of every chain of causality. Some are just harder to accept than others. If you keep asking 'why' in any domain you eventually arrive at something that just seems to be true about reality, at least insofar as we understand it.”
“There was no need to burn our ships upon arrival, like the explorers of old, to ensure the crew's dedication to the mission. Instead, we'd burned our home.”
“Theoretically the only tool you really needed to survive was a gun; everything else could be taken from others who lacked one.”
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