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"Isn’t it true that whatever isn’t determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There’s Nature and there’s Nurture. Is there also some X, some further contributor to what we are? There’s Chance. Luck. This extra ingredient is important but doesn’t have to come from the quantum bowels of our atoms or from some distant star. It is all around us in the causeless coin-flipping of our noisy world, automatically filling in the gaps of specification left unfixed by our genes, and unfixed by salient causes in our environment."
-Daniel Dennett, Freedom Evolves, on the significance of chance
(via Brain Pickings)
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"Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners going back millions of generations, and those winners were, in every generation, the luckiest of the lucky, one out of a thousand or even a million. So however unlucky you may be on some occasion today, your presence on the planet testifies to the role luck has played in your past."
-Daniel Dennett, Freedom Evolves, on how fortunate we are to exist.
( via Brain Pickings)
REBLOG ALL THE BRAIN PICKINGS!
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The Top 10 Reasons to Travel Condensed Down Into 1
The one reason behind everything.
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"For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."
- Albert Camus (via human-voices)(Source: merelyaglance, via human-voices)
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"Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?"
- Epicurus (via rosenplantzandguildenfern)(Source: usgroovykids, via sexular)
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(Source: allfirstdraftsareshit, via deardarlingg-deactivated2012010)
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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
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"Life has no meaning a priori. Before you live it, life is nothing, but it is for you to give it a meaning. Value is nothing other than this meaning which you choose."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (via human-voices)(Source: dishabillic, via existentrillest)
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VIVRE SA VIE (via arwati)
(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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High Resolutiongaws:
Nothing To Be Frightened Of, one of my favourite books of all time.
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"You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other."
- Carl Sagan (via klonazepam)(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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(Source: fuckyeahexistentialism)
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Favorite Things
Twenty-something.
Atlanta.
Hedonist.
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