The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.
To me, a life that doesn't change things and touch people's lives is pretty meaningless.
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.
Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
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