*From one of the most intellectual and well written things of all time, Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot:
"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves." - Carl Sagan
*One of my favorite philosophical quotes:
"No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of goods for people, but they fear it as if they knew for certain that it's the worst thing of all." - Socrates
*A quote from one of my favorite authors:
"...No, it is impossible, it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live as we dream--alone..." - Joseph Conrad (A Heart of Darkness)
*A quote from a famous Russian cosmonaut:
"I don't see any God up here..." - Yuri Gagarin (In orbit, 1961)