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Everything is determined by forces over which we have no control. 

It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust—we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.


—Albert Einstein

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The purpose of man is to develop from this essence a certain type of reason, which will constitute him one of the permanent brain cells of all life. God is both the creator and an evolving being.

He aims at developing by developing his brain cells. As we develop will, consciousness and individuality we become more ready to take our place as one of the brain cells of the universe.

It is a necessity for the universe taken as a whole to develop individuals having these three functions. At about the age of twenty-five George Bernard Shaw had a realisation that nature aims at brains. All his paradoxes and plays flow from this mechanically.

But let us define “brains” more clearly. Ponder for a moment the thought that nature aims at individuals having will, consciousness and individuality. A realisation of this will draw together all other knowledge and ideas, as opposed to modern attempts to find a unity of thought. 

It is like lifting a tent-pole with the canvas which had before lain shapeless on the ground.


—A.R. Orage

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