Time flattens the peaks of emotion and fills the valleys of despond. Tormentors from the past are now shades pale and insubstantial, too weak to haunt. Absence wins out over presence. One needn't work at the purgation of memory: time does the work for us.
Category: Aphorisms and Observations
Human Predicament
It angers us that what angers us does not anger others.
Thinker, Thought, Sentence
If thought is to sentence as soul to body, then thinker is to thought as God to soul.
Intelligence and Religion
The belief that being intelligent rules out being religious casts doubt on the intelligence of those who hold it.
Extremity and Untenability
The extremity of a thesis is a defeasible indicator of its untenability.
He Who Starts Out at Persiflage . . .
. . . may end up at billingsgate.
A hazard on the road of idle talk.
Borders
Borders are part of the body politic's immune system.
Arrogance and Superiority
'Arrogant' is an adjective applied by the envious to the superior.
Suggestibility
People are astonishingly suggestible. But is suggestibility always bad? Belonging to a community of believers reinforces one in one's belief. If the belief is true and life-enhancing, then so is the suggestibility that promotes it.
If Comfort is no Criterion of Truth . . .
. . . then neither is discomfort.
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
In belief as in action.
Vanitas
Live life to the full to appreciate that it is empty.
People Have Their Uses
We need those distorting mirrors called other people to achieve self-knowledge. For a distorting mirror, while it distorts, also mirrors.
Sophia
The word flashed before my mind when the alarm went off. The love of wisdom is real in some of us, but the attainment of wisdom may be forever beyond all of us. To live well, however, we must live as if wisdom is attainable, if not in this life, then in the next. And we must strive to attain it.
The ‘Good’ of Blogging
It may bring about a degeneration of your writing that qualifies you to become a journalist.