“Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.”
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.