That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

Hans Jonas

Abyss Alone Care Cares Contingency Death Does Facing His Man Meanings Nature Nothing Objective Only Other Projecting Situation True Truly Unprecedented Way

Related Quotes

For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.

CausalDeterminedHabits

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

miraclesnatureprobability

Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

AbsolutelyGodGood

Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.

Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

ActionEssenceExistence