“But why on earth, you might ask, should it be necessary for man to achieve, by hook or by crook, a higher level of consciousness?

This is truly the crucial question, and I do not find the answer easy. Instead of a real answer, I can only make a confession of faith. I believe that, after thousands and millions of years, someone had to realize that this wonderful world of mountains and oceans, suns and moons, galaxies and nebulae, plants and animals, exists.

https://youtu.be/Iyvnukd3qQY?si=xfsXWL4Cgo4J_1Kg

(3 hours and 48 minutes in)

This one was earlier in the video and is one of those quotes you would think someone said yesterday, if we paid a fraction of the attention to intellectuals. But is there anyone who speaks like this anymore? Why do I have to go back 50 or 60 or 70 years for a good quote? Maybe it has something to do with WW2 and the Cold War after. Finally, the quote:

We have let the house our fathers built fall into decay, and now we try to break into Oriental palaces that our fathers never knew. Anyone who has lost the historical symbols and cannot be satisfied with substitutes is certainly in a very difficult position today: before him there yawns the void, and he turns away from it in horror. What is worse, the vacuum gets filled with absurd political and social ideas, which one and all are distinguished by their spiritual bleakness.