It is a random universe to which we bring order. You don't really control anything. You can't make anybody love you. No one is any stronger or weaker than anyone else. There are no great men or women.
Progress is an illusion.
Evil can be displaced but never eradicated, as all solutions breed new problems. Yet it is necessary to keep on struggling toward solution. Each of us is ultimately alone. We must live within the ambiguity of partial freedom, partial power, and partial knowledge, and all important decisions are made on the basis of insufficient information. All the significant battles are waged within the self.