It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the insignificance of human existence within the vast universe.
In this quote, Alfred Lord Tennyson expresses the idea that it is hard to believe that such a vast and complex universe was created solely for the benefit of humanity on Earth. This sentiment evokes a sense of humility and contemplation about our place in the cosmos, suggesting that there is much more to existence beyond our understanding and that we may not be the central focus of the universe.
In practice
Using this quote during a speech about the importance of humility in scientific exploration.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!
Earth is dry to the centre,_x000D_ But spring, a new comer,_x000D_ A spring rich and strange,_x000D_ Shall make the winds blow_x000D_ Round and round,_x000D_ Thro' and thro',_x000D_ Here and there,_x000D_ Till the air_x000D_ And the ground_x000D_ Shall be fill'd with life anew.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.
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