Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.
Jostein GaarderIf an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
Jostein GaarderIt is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.
Jostein Gaarder