Posted on December 25, 2019April 30, 2020 The river flows into the ocean, and turns to waves. Waves surging and receding, without end. Our lives are like the waves. We live, we die, we are reborn. Soon your father’s body will be a silent corpse. But like the waves, my life will not end. Like the waves your father will travel to the shore of the next life. His body may die. But his life is eternal.
Posted on August 5, 2011December 21, 2017 Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country’s cause.
Posted on August 28, 2010December 21, 2017 As we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.
Posted on July 6, 2010January 3, 2018 To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something that must be abolished, is the supreme idiocy, in a general sense a real disaster in its consequences… almost as stupid as the will to abolish bad weather.
Posted on July 4, 2010January 3, 2018 If life and existence were an enjoyable state, then everyone would reluctantly approach the unconscious state of sleep and would gladly rise from it again. But the very opposite is the case, for everyone very willingly goes to sleep and unwillingly gets up again.
Posted on April 27, 2010January 3, 2018 Upon the highest throne in the world, we are seated, still, upon our arses.
Posted on January 21, 2010January 3, 2018 The office is to the modern world what the cloister was to the medieval Christendom; a chaste arena with an unrivaled capacity to excite desire.
Posted on February 2, 2009January 11, 2018 As conditional love begins to lose its interest for us, so, too, may a number of the things we pursue in order to secure that love. If wealth, esteem and power buy us a kind of regard that will last only so long as our status holds, but conversely we are destined to end our lives defenseless and disheveled, longing to be comforted like small children, then we have an unusually clear reason to concentrate our energies on those relationships which will best survive the erosion of our standing.
Posted on January 11, 2009January 11, 2018 Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Posted on January 8, 2009January 11, 2018 Culture is the word we have assigned to the force that assists us in identifying which of our many sensations we should focus on and apportion value to.
Posted on December 18, 2008January 11, 2018 Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities.
Posted on June 23, 2007February 9, 2018 Whether you think you can or you can’t, either way you are right.
Posted on February 17, 2006February 10, 2018 In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
