The self is nothing else than the sum of all the contents of consciousness.
"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."
The history of life is a history of survival.
The present state of the system of nature is evidently a resultant of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.