In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
The supreme vice is shallowness.
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!