Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
The primary rules of obligation are those that require or forbid certain actions.
We don't inherit the ocean from our ancestors—we borrow it from our children.
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs, has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.