Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.

Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.

Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.