No Self Is Of Itself

Nature Has No Reverence Towards Life. Nature Treats Life As Though It Were The Most Valueless Thing In The World.... Nature Does Not Act By Purposes.

The Unphilosophical And Philosophical Attitudes Can Be Very Sharply Distinguished (with Scarcely Any Intermediate Forms) By The Fact That The First Accepts Everything That Happens As Regards Its General Form, And Finds Occasion For Surprise Only In That Special Content By Which Something That Happens Here Today Differs From What Happened There Yesterday; Whereas For The Second, It Is Precisely The Common Features Of All Experience, Such As Characterise Everything We Encounter, Which Are The Primary And Most Profound Occasion For Astonishment.

The Sensation Of Colour Cannot Be Accounted For By The Physicist's Objective Picture Of Light-waves.

An Animal That Embarks On Forming States Without Greatly Restricting Egoism Will Perish.

We Must Not Wait For Things To Come, Believing That They Are Decided By Irrescindable Destiny. If We Want It, We Must Do Something About It.