Sublime

L'humanité est parfois étrange, se dit-il en composant le numéro ; mais malheureusement c'était le plus souvent dans le genre étrange et répugnant, rarement dans le genre étrange et admirable.

Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.

But maybe this is who he really is, maybe we go through life never actually being ourselves, mostly never being ourselves. Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

Now we can understand Schopenhauer when he said that mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I wanted people to understand that we are a trash fire of a species, but also most people are pretty cool.

the vast majority of life resides in the humdrum middle. The vast majority of life is unextraordinary, indeed quite average.