Justice Prevails
There is nothing we are quicker to perceive than when we have been wronged; there is nothing we are slower to perceive than when we have done wrong. This seems to me only to be expected, though, given that we have so much passion for vengeance against others and so little for righting the wrongs [...]
Vivamus
How simple our purpose is! and yet how august and beyond our poor abilities it sounds when stated: we search for a philosophy by which human life can truly be lived, in which humanity has become and is thus considered something sacred. Is not the only true purpose of philosophy to guide our lives so [...]
True Dat
Lord it takes a silly girl to lie about the dreams she’s had and man it takes a lonely one to wish she’d never dreamt at all.1 Dashboard Confessional : A Mark, A Mission, A Brand : Ghost Of A Good Thing↩
Angel’s Wings
A part of me looks at myself and says: coldness is not in your nature — if anything, you have known it was necessary to learn coldness to survive as to not go on being abused by those without scruples. Yet I know this is falsehood for there is a component of coldness that was [...]
Quintessence Of Dust
What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? We [...]
Hedonism
One hears many people speak about living for fun and one suspects they are mostly confused — or at the least ill-spoken. Let us assume the later in good faith: let us assume they have ideas far more complex than their words suggest and that their life is not the incessant search for fun and [...]
Beyond Good And Evil: Section 9
According to nature you want to live? O you noble Stoics, what deceptive words these are! Imagine a being like nature, wasteful beyond measure, indifferent beyond measure, without purposes and consideration, without mercy and justice, fertile and desolate and uncertain at the same time; imagine indifference itself as a power — how could you live [...]
Faithless
Rather let me fail than never to have tried at all.
Let’s Talk About Love, Baby
Let’s talk about love. And what it means. And what people are looking for. Because one hears a lot of people complaining about feeling unloved. And one suspects what they want is the intensity of first falling in love. But that’s only a part of a love. And degrading the other parts of love to [...]
Wisdom
Many people come off as if they understood everything, when in truth all they understand is their radically simplified vision of the world.