The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence: Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think

by Robert Pantano

he developed explanations of ethics, believing that evil is always done out of ignorance and harms the doer more than the victim;

I doubt it

“[We are] simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”

There is nothing else to do, nowhere else to go. We must charge headlong into the absurdity, embrace the futility, and live hard for nothing in every moment.

What use is getting more upset or guilty about feeling upset or guilty in an existence that set you up?

When we are tuned into this nothingness of being and truly confront it as a potential part of everything, it could and likely should be followed with a deep recognition of the thin temporariness coated over everything,

It is a delicate, impossible balance—a tightrope walk with humility and meekness in one hand and conviction and pride in the other.

If we are to be fully human and fully alive and aware, it seems that we must be willing to suffer for our pleasures.