The Difference Between A Pessimistic And An

Fate Then Is That Necessity By Which A Certain Result Will Surely Be Brought To Pass According To The Natural Course Of Events However We May Vary The Particular Circumstances Which Precede The Event.

Whenever A Man Acts Purposively, He Acts Under A Belief In Some Experimental Phenomenon. Consequently, The Sum Of The Experimental Phenomena That A Proposition Implies Makes Up Its Entire Bearing Upon Human Conduct.

If Man Were Immortal He Could Be Perfectly Sure Of Seeing The Day When Everything In Which He Had Trusted Should Betray His Trust, And, In Short, Of Coming Eventually To Hopeless Misery. He Would Break Down, At Last, As Every Good Fortune, As Every Dynasty, As Every Civilization Does. In Place Of This We Have Death.

The Method Of Authority Will Always Govern The Mass Of Mankind; And Those Who Wield The Various Forms Of Organized Force In The State Will Never Be Convinced That Dangerous Reasoning Ought Not To Be Suppressed In Some Way.

Generality Is, Indeed, An Indispensable Ingredient Of Reality; For Mere Individual Existence Or Actuality Without Any Regularity Whatever Is A Nullity. Chaos Is Pure Nothing.