"To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer I've pasted below, verbatim, an essay originally posted in this…
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers ~ Voltaire People ask me amazing questions. They're generally both ignorant and redundant, as I indicated previously. Sometimes the questions are neither ignorant nor redundant. They're mean-spirited, thereby consistent…
by Joe Dellatore, a lifelong tree-hugger who also wanted to earn a lot of money (ergo, his employment as a business adviser, currently with IBM). Joe learned the foolishness of the monetary path about seven years ago and has been…
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt I've interacted with thousands of people during a life exceeding half a century. Most of these people are quick to judge others, primarily on…
"Any good poet, in our age at least, must begin with the scientific view of the world; and any scientist worth listening to must be something of a poet, must possess the ability to communicate to the rest of us…
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. ~ Johannes Kepler Beneath the song embedded below, I've posted an essay from October 2008. It's presented verbatim, and is followed…
"I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live." ~ Oscar Wilde The species Homo sapiens -- clearly our most-loved species, at the expense of nearly all others -- has occupied Earth at a temperature somewhere between…