The father loves his children, the mother loves her children, the children love their father and mother; but this is not like that, brothers. The wild beast also loves its young. But a man can be related only by similarity of mind and not of blood. Continue reading
The dialectician is a kind of buffoon: one laughs at him, one does not take him seriously. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols Continue reading
For the first time you lift your heart to God with stirrings of love, you will find only a darkness, and as it were, a cloud of unknowing. Continue reading
To the Logician, life is an ongoing inquiry into the mysteries of the universe. Continue reading
All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. Continue reading
There are four levels of meaning in an esoteric text: Literal, Allegorical, Moral, Anagogical. How to unravel the true meaning. Continue reading
A mathematician, a carpenter, and a physicist walk into a bar. The carpenter is touching and admiring the bar’s woodwork. The mathematician is siting and thinking, while the physicist was busily doodling on his napkin. After a while, they struck up a conversation. Continue reading
Once you can survive, once you have achieved some consistency in your life, then what is your best life? Are you driven by the desire to think, to know, to understand, to serve the Good? Or do you prefer to “feel good” by increasing your serotonin levels? Continue reading
Only from you, my sweet love,
Shall this heart find peace and solace
Your beautiful hazy eyes are the stars
By which love guides me to port
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The principal aim of Socratic activity may be to improve the soul of the interlocutors, by freeing them from unrecognized errors; or indeed, by teaching them the spirit of inquiry. Continue reading