“We’re all in a hell in which each moment is a miracle.”
Cioran
Prescription
Being
Lucid
About
Our
Nature
And
Fate
Won’t
Hurt
You,
In fact
It’s
The
Seedbed
For
Modern
Virtue.
“Great artists grow in strength, strike out in new directions as the years go by. But what are we to think of those bluffers who, the moment they have a cocktail in their hand, a nice thick carpet underfoot and a titled lady to greet them, start bowing and scraping like the tame dogs they are?”
Miró
Temperamental Differences
Some
Care
About
Not being
Caught
Unawares,
While
Others
Don’t
Mind
The
Surprise
When
They
Capsize.
Instigators
The
Naive,
Who
Believe
In
The
Goodness
Of
Man,
Often
Bring
It
About.
Dissonances
We
Love
Animals
With
Human
Traits
And
Impute
Animal
Traits
To
Humans
We
Hate.
“The greatest tragedy of academic philosophy in the twentieth century in the English-speaking world is that it was developed as a profession largely by people … who did not themselves have philosophical problems and who — perhaps for that reason — operated with a commonsense view of the world and equated philosophical activity with conceptual analysis.”
Bryan McGee
Confessions of a Philosopher
Peace and Love
What
We
All
Deeply
Long
For
Is
To
Our
Credit.
Our
Tragedy
Is
Our
Strategy.