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The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
- Nikos Kazantzakis
I rarely post things that are not quotes I find inspirational. However, I feel compelled to remind anyone looking that this exists, and has existed since the 90s.
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I rarely post things that are not quotes I find inspirational. However, I feel compelled to remind anyone looking that this exists, and has existed since the 90s.
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels upon the levers upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop!
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels upon the levers upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop!
Shout out to the music folks at the World Series game 3. It has been pretty great!
October 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Shout out to the music folks at the World Series game 3. It has been pretty great!
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
October 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
"Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
-David Mitchell
-David Mitchell
August 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
"Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
-David Mitchell
-David Mitchell
Thomas Paine: "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one;
July 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Thomas Paine: "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one;
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Often attributed to Edmund Burke who didn’t say it. Its earliest form was by John Stuart Mill, who said in 1867: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
Often attributed to Edmund Burke who didn’t say it. Its earliest form was by John Stuart Mill, who said in 1867: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
June 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Often attributed to Edmund Burke who didn’t say it. Its earliest form was by John Stuart Mill, who said in 1867: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
Often attributed to Edmund Burke who didn’t say it. Its earliest form was by John Stuart Mill, who said in 1867: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
*You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."
February 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
*You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."
"Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who cloak themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged. Waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness"
-Jean-Luc Picard
-Jean-Luc Picard
February 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
"Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who cloak themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged. Waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness"
-Jean-Luc Picard
-Jean-Luc Picard
“The reason why the world lacks unity and lies broken and in heaps is because man is disunited with himself.” — Emerson
January 31, 2025 at 4:41 AM
“The reason why the world lacks unity and lies broken and in heaps is because man is disunited with himself.” — Emerson
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
-Emma Lazarus
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
-Emma Lazarus
January 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
-Emma Lazarus
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
-Emma Lazarus
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-Tennyson
-Tennyson
December 30, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-Tennyson
-Tennyson
Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life living true to that lie.
- Robert Brault
- Robert Brault
December 15, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life living true to that lie.
- Robert Brault
- Robert Brault
The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
December 5, 2024 at 4:30 AM
The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Hitchen's razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
December 3, 2024 at 5:40 AM
Hitchen's razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus
November 29, 2024 at 11:01 PM
No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus
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Today I'm grateful for family, friends & loved ones.
Also: pie
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Also: pie
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November 28, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Today I'm grateful for family, friends & loved ones.
Also: pie
🙏
Also: pie
🙏
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit; because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure
- Tacitus
- Tacitus
November 28, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit; because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure
- Tacitus
- Tacitus
The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardi
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardi
November 25, 2024 at 5:40 AM
The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardi
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardi
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Marcus Aurelius
November 24, 2024 at 1:58 PM
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
- Marcus Aurelius
- Marcus Aurelius
Four-score and two years ago, the US faced a similar crisis of conscience, and made the wrong call. Pertinent reading...
November 21, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Four-score and two years ago, the US faced a similar crisis of conscience, and made the wrong call. Pertinent reading...
What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 21, 2024 at 2:19 AM
What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
- Epictetus
November 20, 2024 at 5:10 AM
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
- Epictetus
Tis not too late to seek a newer world. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
November 19, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Tis not too late to seek a newer world. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson