We Dull Our Lives By

How Can Hitler, Or Some Other Murderer, Appear In This World? I Don't Think Any Single Theory Can Account For The Phenomenon, And I Think It's A Mistake To Try To Reduce It To Being Brutalized By Your Parents Or Having Grown Up In Some Horrible Situation - Like Charles Manson.

Sooner Or Later Something Seems To Call Us Onto A Particular Path... This Is What I Must Do, This Is What I've Got To Have. This Is Who I Am.

Attention Is The Cardinal Psychological Virtue. On It Depends Perhaps The Other Cardinal Virtues, For There Can Hardly Be Faith Nor Hope Nor Love For Anything Unless It First Receives Attention.

The Idea Of Death Robs Inquiry Of Its Passionate Vitality And Empties Our Efforts Of Their Purpose By Coming To One Predestined Conclusion, Death. Why Inquire If You Already Know The Answer?

The Psyche Is Highly Flammable Material. So We Are Always Wrapping Things In Asbestos, Keeping Our Images And Fantasies At Arm's Length Because They Are So Full Of Love