Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
I shall die again and again to know that life is inexhaustible.
Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity of the real world” is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.