The Essence Of Life Is Doing Things

The Reason Is, And By Rights Ought To Be, Slave To The Emotions.

No Satisfaction Based Upon Self-deception Is Solid.

To Teach How To Live Without Certainty And Yet Without Being Paralysed By Hesitation Is Perhaps The Chief Thing That Philosophy, In Our Age, Can Do For Those Who Study It.

Dread Of Disaster Makes Everybody Act In The Very Way That Increases The Disaster.

[there Are M]oral Precepts That We Consider Really Important, Such As 'don't Pick Your Nose' Or 'don't Eat Peas With A Knife'. There May, For Ought I Know, Be Admirable Reasons For Eating Peas With A Knife, But . . . Early Persuasion Has Made Me Completely Incapable Of Appreciating Them.