We Are An Episode Between Two Oblivions.

The Point Is... To Live One's Life In The Full Complexity Of What One Is, Which Is Something Much Darker, More Contradictory, More Of A Maelstrom Of Impulses And Passions, Of Cruelty, Ecstacy, And Madness, Than Is Apparent To The Civilized Being Who Glides On The Surface And Fits Smoothly Into The World.

A Theory Of Motivation Is Defective If It Renders Intelligible Behaviour Which Is Not Intelligible.

Altruism Itself Depends On A Recognition Of The Reality Of Other Persons, And On The Equivalent Capacity To Regard Oneself As Merely One Individual Among Many.

Once We See An Aspect Of What We Or Someone Else Does As Something That Happens, We Lose Our Grip On The Idea That It Has Been Done And That We Can Judge The Doer And Not Just The Happening.

Any Reductionist Program Has To Be Based On An Analysis Of What Is To Be Reduced. If The Analysis Leaves Something Out, The Problem Will Be Falsely Posed.