(August 12, 2011 at 11:58 pm)Cinjin Wrote: One could even argue that the harshness and coldness and the limitations of life only add to the immense brutal beauty of it all.
Exactly. For example, what makes life precious? Death, and the fact that it is final.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell