Attributed to Paulo Coelho, "The Alchemist" |
"Adopting... an ontological point of view, we pose the question: where do we come from? (And where are we going?) That babies come from the womb is a familiar biological fact concerning our early bodies, but it is of no help with the present question. I thus lay down my... alarming proposition: We don't really know where we (as babies) came from.