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21 " If I was in hell, would I know? "
― Exurb1a , The Prince of Milk
22 " With the right ears even a lesser creature can hear the song. It is sung constantly, from the heart of each atom and star. The galaxies hum of shape and form in their essence. That is their secret. The particles whisper of the nature of proper interactions. That is their game. And during a storm, in the forest, on the right night, it is no secret that the leaves all sing of God. "
― Exurb1a , The Fifth Science
23 " Until that hungry black god eats me up. Now I spend the centuries circling into it like a penny in one of those coin spirals at an arcade; "
― Exurb1a , The Bridge to Lucy Dunne
24 " self-consciousness was the product of a positive feedback loop between perception and reflection, the two eventually amplifying each other into a cycle that occurred so quickly neither could be separated from the other. "
25 " However we feel about this, Arcadia was built with pure autonomy in mind. Autonomy is only true autonomy when you allow others to go in directions you don’t condone. All else is just ethical masturbation. "
― Exurb1a , Logic Beach: Part I
26 " If philosophers gave clear answers then surely the whole field would've died out with the Greeks. "
27 " Save a drowning fool and he'll only be back in the river the next day. And what then?” The boy lowers his voice to its true pitch; deep and echoing all of a sudden. “Leave him to drown and you're no better than a murderer. "
28 " One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. — Carl Jung "
29 " But if you think about it long enough, you'll always come around to the same conclusion, I reckon. There's no grand plan and no one's in charge. "
30 " We call it ‘narrative collapse’. When a planet is very connected, a time inevitably arrives when it becomes difficult to work out what is actually going on. Video and audio can be faked. Testimony isn’t reliable. All truths fall into a relative flatness. This is more dangerous than any doomsday weapon. You "
31 " Look, here.” It was a mound and inside the mound were black insects, popping out of the mound then crawling back in. Some were skirting the surrounding dirt, bringing back sticks and pebbles. “They're called mitwicks. Do you like them?” “I thought you'd found something,” Ushko muttered. “I have. Look at them. Do you know what they do?” “No.” “They live for about four hundred days. They choose a queen. She doesn't have babies, but she can give orders. She orders them all about to pick things up and bring them back. They build a mound together and inside they fill it with the best sticks and pebbles they can find. And when it's perfect, when they've built the perfect home and everything's just right, do you know what they do?” “No.” “They die. "
32 " That which is abandoned in the name of efficiency was often an essential part after all. "
33 " Inaction is the primary refuge of those who prefer their own constructed realities to the beautiful chaos of the real world. "
34 " There’s nothing magic about a grenade, but you still don’t pull the pin out. "
35 " He said silently and with infinite volume, Mind is only matter that knows it is matter. Matter is only mind that is yet to become mind. "
― Exurb1a , Geometry for Ocelots
36 " Whatever happens, however clever we eventually become, there will be an end to our trials and projects. Whether we’re superseded by our creations or just put to sleep by exhaustion, the end of history will approach eventually. When that occurs, all the statues and books and paintings in the world won’t save our legacy. Better then that we just enjoy the time we have, living in a wonderful age like the one we find ourselves in now. "
37 " The true horror of existence is not the certainty of death, nor the threat of hell, but the knowledge that we will likely go our entire lives as impossibly complex machines, walking about in an impossibly complex universe, and never truly discover what it was all for. I don’t know is brave. I’ll never know is heroic. "
38 " If I asked you in the midst of a tragedy, “Shall I end your suffering and make all well again?” you would answer, “Please do, I beg it.” If instead I asked you after the tragedy, “Are you glad you lived through it? Did you grow wiser from the experience?” you would answer, “Yes! Thank you for not stopping the thing prematurely.” Humans are not to be trusted. "
39 " Just like a hotel, it's a place to sleep and be, only you don't sleep that much and you're barely a thing at all anymore. You keep the place bare like this because there's nothing left on the inside to express. "
40 " Consciousness is a pattern, he mused. An ocean of sorts. "