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- High rent requires you work more to pay it. The wealthy, who do not work — the leisure class — invest in property which drives up rent… and therefore the amount of time the rest of us have to work to live.
- The problem of evil is really the problem of the good: why do we refuse it?
- Most people escape the problem of meaninglessness by means of spiritual weakness; having no real feelings or ambitions. Some escape through strength, through trying to conquer the world. Both approaches are flawed. It’s unclear, however, what a better approach would be.
- We are crucified on the cross of our own unbearable averageness.
- There is something telling in the trend of extreme workouts; it’s essentially religious, acetic. In the absence of traditional religious life, we find other means of torturing the flesh into meaning.
