why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.