#philosophy

"Unconditional Love [10w] If you're not giving unconditional love,you're offering conditional hate."

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

"Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse"

"It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical."

"THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM[all snap flags]Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem."

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."

"So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?"

"Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true,"it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?"

"With every moment and every heartbeat, we change even though we still fear change."

"Fodder for Poets [10w] Childhood memories are the most seminal sustenance for creating poetry."

"The Rubik's Cube of Omár my Mán A Key of Coke underneath the Bough,A Jug of Jack, a Brick of Hash ~ Newsflash:'Now who the fuck needs Thou'."

"The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others."

"Brownie Mix [10w] + {Couplet} Betwixt hell and the River Styx,I'll be shitting bricks."

"Just enjoy the music of life."

"Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship."

"Une philosophie doit etre portative."

"Heart My heart jumps every time you walk through the door.It's not love.I have an arrhythmia."

"A Loaf of Challah Haiku A loaf of challah,a bottle of Rashi wine...For everything else there's Simply Manischewitz."

"Valentine's Day 1 [10w] Valentine's Day affirms the promise that love can be sustained."

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."