„Was ist Zeit? Es ist eine Schlange, die ihren Schwanz frisst.“
Original
What is time? It is a serpent which eats its tail
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
Kontext: I was on par with the Creator of the Universe there in the dark in the cocktail lounge. I shrunk the Universe to a ball exactly one light-year in diameter. I had it explode. I had it disperse itself again.
Ask me a question, any question. How old is the Universe? It is one half-second old, but the half-second has lasted one quintillion years so far. Who created it? Nobody created it. It has always been here.
What is time? It is a serpent which eats its tail, like this:
This is the snake which uncoiled itself long enough to offer Eve the apple, which looked like this:
What was the apple which Eve and Adam ate? It was the Creator of the Universe.
And so on.
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
Kurt Vonnegut 4
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller 1922–2007Ähnliche Zitate
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Anmerkung
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