Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
“Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.”
“Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.”