“We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.”
“We die, you die. You die, we survive. I think there’s a pecking order in that, don’t you?”
“There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.”
“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”
“We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.”
“We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.”