The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.
We are experiencing new problems every day and whatever we do adds to the richness of our cultural heritage as long as it has man as its centre
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldnt it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men.
...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.
Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.
The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.
I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.
