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In my senior high school year I was deeply occupied by the meaning of life and, no wonder, I was a nuisance to a girl I was dating. One day she said to me: "My father has a message for you: life has no meaning, however it makes even less sense to talk about it". The gods did not reveal from the beginning,All things to us; but in the course of time Through seeking, men found that which is better. But as for certain truth, no man has known it, Nor will he know it; neither of the gods, Nor yet of all the things of which I speak. And even if by chance he were to utter The final truth, he would himself not know it; For all is but a woven web of guesses. Xenophanes (c.570--c.478 BCE): in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Vol. I (H. Diels and W. Kranz, eds.), Weidman, Zurich, 1952; translated by Karl Popper. |
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Along the Emerald Lake trail, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO |
This Xenophanes quote appears on so many places, but I can’t resist to put if forward once more. |
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