Being – Page 34 – Everything

Being

Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham

Jan 262015
 

Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by stupidity, or to stupidity what can be explained by drug abuse.

Jan 232015
 

And now abideth sloth, greed, fear, these three; but the greatest of these is sloth.

Jan 162015
 

No one is too busy to repeat himself.

Jan 142015
 

Wanna Bet and Sticks and Stones — the modern adult would do well to recover these timeless principles of the playground.

Dec 232014
 

The dream of escaping oneself can be realized, in part, by escaping other people’s ideas of oneself.

Dec 182014
 

There’s not much point in age without wisdom, or youth without folly.

Dec 052014
 

All special snowflakes look exactly alike without a microscope.

Nov 192014
 

The first trick every utterly unreasonable person masters is a calm and reasonable appearance.

Oct 272014
 

If suffering ennobles, does joy degrade?