#philosophy

"You're My Favorite' If you want all your children to know they're your favorite,give them all the same nameand whisper this confession in all their earswith the promise not to telltheir brothers and sisters."

"Boasting vs. Toasting [10w] + {Couplet} What many call boasting to my success I call toasting."

"All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects."

"You are the beloved conscious reflection of this universe. You are here to enjoy the beauty and joy of life."

"The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour."

"Melting Icicles Haiku Drip, drip, Drip, drip, Drip:Sounds of melting iciclesannouncing the Spring"

"...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency."

"Put it All on Black' [10w] God doesn't play dice with the universe;He prefers roulette."

"You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself."

"you shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings ofHecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself."That wasindeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind."

"Democracy, Really [10w] A democracy is free to replace one tyranny with another."

"Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones."

"If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it."

"Love delayed is lust augmented."

"Follow your heart; don’t fear changes. With love, the heart changes its content."

"Life is nothing but a few ecstatic dancing atoms."

"Failures and mistakes are lessons to be learned from. They are opportunities for growth."

"All actual life is encounter."

"The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior's form of worship."

"Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it—which always amounts to the same."