"If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it."
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"To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting."
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"If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also."
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"How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos."
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"The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination."
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"For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One."
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