Life is a futile exercise in which we are all slaves to our  ‘will’, trapped by our basic, insatiable desires for sex, food and safety. The arts are the only way to relieve us from this monotonous treadmill, as they can offer transcendence, intellectual escape, and a bit of light relief.

SCHOPENHAEUR.

Mankind’s Greatest Evil:  ORGANISED RELIGION.

Mankind’s Second Greatest Evil: TOLERANCE OF ORGANISED RELIGION.

‘I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask  ”Why are we here?”   I might think about it a little bit, and if I can’t figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose- which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.

RICHARD FEYNMAN.

To wisely live your life, you don’t need to know much

Just remember two rules for the beginning.

You better starve than eat whatever

And better be alone, than with whoever.