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If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Plato was a bore.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.