Life is like a tooth At first we didn’t think about it, We just chewed And then it’s gone bad It hurts you, and we hold on to it And we treat it and the worries, And for us to be really cured We have to rip it off, life. (Boris Vian)

The humanism of the 18th century defined human being far too narrowly: it defined him as being thinking instead of being alive.
Claude Lévi-Strauss