Tragic Sense of Life

And the most tragic problem of philosophy is to reconcile intellectual necessities with the necessities of the heart and will.

...Someone perhaps will add that I do not know what I say, to which I shall reply that perhaps he may be right - and being right is such s little thing! - but that I feel what I say and I know what I feel and that suffices me.

"Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.