The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
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Cyrano de Bergerac was a 17th-century French novelist and dramatist. Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality