#philosophy

"Family {Couplet} For my misery, family brings relief,tripling my joy, halving my grief.This aesthetic arithmetic's quite poetic,an accounting surmounting odds unsympathetic.Now there seems no hardship I cannot withstand,accompanied by my exponential, familial band."

"Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul."

"What is Love? [10w] Love is the stubborn desire to find permanencein impermanence."

"Miss Universe Contest Protest Haiku Fundamentalists protest Miss Universe contest.Go home, beat their wives."

"A-New-Year's-a-Comin' [10w] A new year is coming!Let's all make new mistakes!"

"Food If food comes with a labelthat's warning enough you shouldn't eat it."

"Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating."

"The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy."

"As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

"Wenn man nachts nicht schläft, werden Träume wahr."

"Trust comes from courage; beliefs are derived from fear."

"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."

"Straight Men vs. Curved Women [10w] 'Straight' men who approach 'curved' women must'mind the gap'."

"Epiphanies [10w] Epiphanies aren't intuitions of new ideas;they're rearranging existing information."

"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."

"Time is what keeps things from happening all at once."

"People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls."

"One Poet, 20 Months, 6000 Poems [10w] Let me take this breath... to celebrate my 6000th poem."

"I think, therefore I'll think."