"Humans have the special capacity to step back and survey themselves, and the
lives to which they are committed, with that detached amazement which comes from
watching an ant struggle up a heap of sand. Without developing the illusion that
they are able to escape from their highly specific and idiosyncratic position,
they can view it
sub specie aeternitatis—and the view is at once sobering
and comical."
Thomas Nagel, The Absurd
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