First get yourself into a comfortable position for (re)production, and relax. Then reflect, and inspect, and project. Then reflect, and expect, and connect. Then reflect, and reflect, and reflect.
Archive for the ‘Pensees’ Category
It is unhealthy to misunderstand morality, or your place amongst nature.
All chaotic systems produce random noise, or Wildness. From this wildness emerges a new level of stable looping orders of being. This Wildness owes mostly to the instant mortality of all events. The world is in a constant flux, and it is only those arrangements which some way or other induce their environment and their [...]
Of what Nature will our Love be? Will it grow like a weed, that wildest of the kingdom, fast and vigorous, encompassing everything in its tight grasp. Or will it metamorphose, as divine things do, into a grand oak, proud and sturdy with roots dug deep down into earth. Or again will it become an [...]
[work in progress] Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! [dare to know] [...]
when you’re looking for something that isn’t there, you won’t find it
a philosopher sculpts [appearances of] ideas out of words
the ability to live well, despite lacking knowledge of the good life
it is not when something ends that we ruminate on past failures, but when something begins
* What do you mean? * Why do you think that? * How does that follow?
The opiate of one generation becomes the birth defect of the next.
the purpose of any relationship, whether it is between friends, family, or lovers, is to help each other grow, emotionally, intellectually, and morally, as people
i destroy myself because I find my culture unfit for humans, but that is a fault in my culture, not in my humanity
children are not free; they are merely little monkeys whom we are willing to forgive for failing to imitate the big monkeys appropriately
