“In a game, winning is everything. But how does one win at life? The game of life is filled with suffering, the future is uncertain, and things just happen for no reason.”

“Solipsism is so convincing, there should be more solipsists. What you think, becomes. Nothing exists separate from the awareness it appears within. You are the only consciousness that you can be sure of. For all practical purposes, you are God.”

“What must you do to be a good person? You cannot apply one ancient rule to everything that happens to you, no matter how golden it is. Figuring out right from wrong is complicated. It’s up to you. Do nothing that does not agree with your reason, wisdom, and experience.”

“Do you live in a just world? Is your life fair or unfair? We must believe in a just world or life is not worth living. Yet, it is nonsense to ask questions that lie outside the world as these are unaskable and unanswerable.”

“Time passes differently as we age. Time seems to pass more slowly when we are young and speed up as we enter adulthood. Why, and what is the effect on human behavior and on how we choose to live?”

“It is better to roll the stone up a hill only for it to roll down every time it nears the top, than to just stop pushing. Surrender and be unhappy, or suffer with purpose and be happy!”

“Human behavior happens for no reason. So, to appear logical and rational, your life is either/or and must be either half-full or half-empty, good or evil, happy or unhappy.”

“Truth is not determined by the individual, by many people, or by most people. It is not what we don’t dream or make up, or what is left after we go away. Belief is easy, but truth is hard.”

“Lao-tzu and Jesus, the philosophical founders of Taoism and Christianity, respectively, walk into a bar ...”

“At his trial, the principle of counterfactual causation, by philosophers David Hume and David Lewis, could have been used to save Mr. Pimental from five felony convictions and a prison sentence of ten years.”