When all else fail, philosophize.

I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them?

Does it surprise you as much as it does me, this correspondence between things as they are and the pictures we have of them in our minds?

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.