What is best about our lives -the moments when we are, as we would put it, at our happiest- is both pleasant and deeply unpleasant. Happiness is not a feeling; it is a way of being. If we focus on the feelings, we will miss the point. Mark Rowlands More Quotes by Mark Rowlands More Quotes From Mark Rowlands What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf. Mark Rowlands coldness live-your-life important Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple Mark Rowlands apples deception lying In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us. Mark Rowlands defiance ends heart In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. Mark Rowlands defiance ends Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized. Mark Rowlands apes animal civilization