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"How compact your bodies are! And what a variety of senses you have! This thing you call language, though; most remarkable! You depend on it for so very much, but is any one of you really its master? But most of all, the aloneness... you are so alone. You live out your lives in this shell of flesh - self-contained; separate. How lonely you are - how terribly lonely."
-Medusan ambassador Kollos speaking through Spock; Star Trek: S3-E5
“In his life-form, the individual is necessarily only a fraction and distortion of the total image of man. He is limited either as male or as female; at an given period of his life he is again limited as child, youth, mature adult, or ancient; furthermore, in his life-role he is necessarily specialized as craftsman, tradesman, servant, or thief, priest, leader, wife, nun, or harlot; he cannot be all. Hence, the totality- the fullness of man- is not in the separate member, but in the body of the society as a whole; the individual can only be an organ. From this group he has derived his techniques of life, the language in which he thinks, the ideas on which he thrives; through the past of that society descended the genes that built his body. If he presumes to cut himself off, either in deed or in thought and feeling, he only breaks connection with the sources of his existence.”
-Joseph Campbell; The Hero With A Thousand Faces
“We are all star stuff that has attained consciousness.”
-Carl Sagan
-Medusan ambassador Kollos speaking through Spock; Star Trek: S3-E5
“In his life-form, the individual is necessarily only a fraction and distortion of the total image of man. He is limited either as male or as female; at an given period of his life he is again limited as child, youth, mature adult, or ancient; furthermore, in his life-role he is necessarily specialized as craftsman, tradesman, servant, or thief, priest, leader, wife, nun, or harlot; he cannot be all. Hence, the totality- the fullness of man- is not in the separate member, but in the body of the society as a whole; the individual can only be an organ. From this group he has derived his techniques of life, the language in which he thinks, the ideas on which he thrives; through the past of that society descended the genes that built his body. If he presumes to cut himself off, either in deed or in thought and feeling, he only breaks connection with the sources of his existence.”
-Joseph Campbell; The Hero With A Thousand Faces
“We are all star stuff that has attained consciousness.”
-Carl Sagan
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