“To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.” KnowsMayEnjoyChanceResultsKnow HowDesignFoolLuckyHighestFoundationBlindMereEnvyAccidentsRichesRationalDiminishPreferencePrudent Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. The chance's of theism's truth being to my mind so microscopically small, I would be a pedant and a hypocrite to call myself anything else.” MindWould BeChanceTheoryTruth IsEvidenceAtheistAppearanceRationalAgnosticHypocriteTheismPedantsPending Book:The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
“From a rational standpoint, it might be expected that man should be far more willing to express financial confidence in his skills rather than risking his earnings on the mindless meanderings of chance. Experience, however, has strongly indicated the reverse proposition to hold true.” MenShouldMightChanceWillingSkillsFinancialExpectedRationalReverseEarningPropositionsStandpointMindless Author:Richard Arnold Epstein
“There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.” MayChanceRightsRationalFollyIrrationalGood Sense Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe