Nature's Nonchalance

"Nature abandons without reserve her organisms constructed with such inexpressible skill, not only to predatory instinct of the stronger, but also to the blindest chance ... She expresses that the annihilation of these individuals is a matter of indifference to her, does her no harm ... With man she does not act otherwise than she does with animals ... Everything lingers only for a moment, and hurries on to death ... But despite all this, in fact as if this were not the case at all, everything is always there and in its place, just as if everything was imperishable ... Death is for the species, what sleep is for the individual, or winking for the eye. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

After-wants

"If in a Utopia, everything grew automatically and pigeons flew about already roasted; where everyone at once found his sweetheart and had no difficulty keeping her; then people would die of boredom or hang themselves."

Arthur Schopenhauer