Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he read more

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

No, misery makes sport to mock itself.

No, misery makes sport to mock itself.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of read more

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

The miserable have no other medicine but hope.

The miserable have no other medicine but hope.

Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.

Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.

But O yet more miserable!
Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

But O yet more miserable!
Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.