What are we? Where did we come from and where are we going? What is the meaning and purpose of life - fauna and flora, the human race and the individual? Is fate really so inevitable? These and many other equally important questions in this book are attempted to be answered by people known for their ability to think originally, to see in things and phenomena that which is not visible to others. Many of them can rightfully be called the best minds of humanity. Their points of view are very different, often diametrically opposed, but all very interesting. None of their definitions contains the final (most likely unattainable) truth, but each contains an answer that brings us at least a little closer to it. The publication was also published in the “Politics of the Wise” series under the title “Thoughts and sayings of the great about the most important thing. Human. Life. Fate."