Only after he has exhausted his other resources does the boy begin to torture insects, or the ruler his subjects.
Mar 312014
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Mar 282014
Moral progress is only economic progress: men in the mass have the ethics they can afford.
Mar 262014
Diligence is the most menacing of the virtues.
Mar 102014
Adaptive is not optimal.
Mar 072014
The petty soul favors the grand gesture.
Jan 092014
No one remembers who lost the argument, only who lost his temper.
Jan 012014
Whatever one does well one is sure to do too often.
Dec 312013
Anger impairs judgment but improves memory.
Dec 162013
Mindfulness, n. Non-judgmental focus on the sensations of the present moment; mindlessness.
Oct 292013
Everybody is worth a paragraph, but almost nobody is worth two.