I Don't Like It, And I'm Sorry

I Know Not Whence I Came, Nor Whither I Go, Nor Who I Am.

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 Self Is Not So Much Linked To Its Ancestors, It Is Not So Much The Product, And Merely The Product, Of All That, But Rather, In The Strictest Sense Of The Word, The Same Thing As All That: The Strict, Direct Continuation Of It, Just As The Self Aged Fifty Is The Continuation Of The Self Aged Forty.

For A Solitary Animal Egoism Is A Virtue That Tends To Preserve And Improve The Species: In Any Kind Of Community It Becomes A Destructive Vice.

The Essential Feature Of Statistics Is A Prudent And Systematic Ignoring Of Details.