- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
This is another quote from The Books of Bokonon, in which Bokonon sets out the terms of his illusory religion. Essentially, this is a poem about the human condition. Just as tigers hunt and birds fly—that is, they behave according to their instincts—humankind is biologically programmed to question its very existence. Bokonon suggests that entirety of human endeavor—whether it’s trying to make scientific progress or develop religion to make sense of the world—is driven by this fundamental existentialism. Bokononism is a religion that gives answers to life’s deepest questions while paradoxically hammering away at the point that these answers…