Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.