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We are survival machines — robot vehicles blindly programmed

We are survival machines — robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. – Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. – Erich Fromm, Man for Himself, 1947

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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease… and throw himself into roils and labors. – Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, 1787

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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. – Gustave Flaubert

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The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

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