„Do we, holding that the gods exist,deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreamsand lies, while random careless chance andchange alone control the world?“

— Carl Sagan

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„Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.“
— Franz Kafka
„God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist. We've been deceived. If God existed, he'd have made the world more just… I'll lend you a book and you'll see.“
— Joseph Stalin