Star Trek: The Next Generation

"What is life but a series of choices made in ignorance?"

"I have tested humanity countless times. You continue to surprise me."

"Your species' obsession with meaning is quite remarkable."

"The universe is indifferent to your happiness."

"Love makes you vulnerable. This is your greatest strength and weakness."

"Your suffering teaches you nothing. You repeat it endlessly."

"I could destroy you with a thought. Yet here you stand."

"Solitude is where you confront the emptiness within."

"Relationships are the slow process of mutual disillusionment."

"Inspiration is hope's prettier cousin. Equally delusional."

"Your motivation stems from fear of irrelevance."

"War brings out the truth beneath your veneer of civility."

"Politics is the art of organized deception."

"Literature is your species' best lies."

"Philosophy is asking questions you cannot answer."

"History will forget you. This I promise."

"Technology is your species' attempt to become worthy of existence."

"Imagination is where your species does its only real thinking."

"Adventure is what you call chaos with a pleasing narrative."

"Health is merely the slow march toward inevitable decay."

"Money is your species' most ingenious fiction."

"Power is the only currency that matters in the universe."

"Fear is your most honest emotion. Cherish it."

"Strength comes from accepting your fundamental insignificance."

"Kindness is evolution's cruelest joke on your species."

"Patience is the luxury of the eternal. You lack it."

"Justice is whatever serves the interests of the powerful."

"Creativity is rearranging existing ideas with minimal success."

"Gratitude is a sign of weakness masquerading as virtue."

"Perseverance is what you call it when surrender is impossible."