Tenets I live by

• Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
• Happiness (call it containment, nirvana, enlightenment) is a goal we strive to achieve. It is an evolutionary trait that arguably has some advantages.
• We need to make ourselves happy to make others happy.
• To make ourselves happy, we need the world to be a happy place (note the strange loop with the last point).
• No human being (Homo sapiens) is perfect.
• Homo sapiens aren't the end all and be all of the evolutionary process of variation and selection of parents and corresponding offspring.
• Death is the high cost of living. In more general terms, the Philosophy section of my song Renaissance illustrates the paradoxical situations that arise when we think in dualistic terms ("love" and "hate"; "happiness" or "sadness").