“Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.”

“I pushed my legs faster, letting Jacob Black disappear behind me.”

“, civilization is an ever-changing tacit agreement, culturally inherited, not chosen at birth. Civilization is the invention of man, my big friend. It is a means of ensuring order and structure; it is man’s attempt to expunge all and every act of randomness from daily life. The ultimate goal of civilization is determinism, the complete absence of freewill. If everyone adhered to every rule, every demand, every decree of civilization, there would be no accidents, no arguments, no crime! Man would move through his life smoothly, like a well-oiled cog in a grandfather clock.”

“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”