Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together. -- George Santayana

Once you see that everthing is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it. -- E.M. Cioran

It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine. -- Richard Dawkins

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