Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out - more like, they figure themselves out - and everything gets real clear.

To wish a life without stairs, without hills and mountains is to wish a dim life without the joy of rising with our own efforts!

The purpose of a purpose is to fulfill a purpose

Using Pain To Relieve Pain. Doesn't Make Much Sense. But It Works.

He knows not where he's going, For the ocean will decide, Its not the destination, It's the glory of the ride

Death means nothing to us

Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.

Humans, when you talk to me about them... I more likely see them as an unsolvable unloggable problem... than something else.

In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with small defects is used for the inner...

Of course, chaos can lead to failure and extinction. But so can order. Far more nations, people, and ideas die of atrophy than die from revolution. Both order and chaos are necessary ingredients for...

Knowledge is abundant, but wisdom is rare.

There is no absolute truth. There is only your truth.

What's a man worth without love? $.89 worth of chemicals. Hawkeye Pierce

… what I'm saying is that if we and all the other species on earth are the only life forms in the universe and if there are no gods and let's face it apart from a few tired scrolls written 300 years...

Plato in both the Gorgias and the Republic looked back to Socrates and asserted that "it is better to suffer tortures on the rack than to have a soul burdened with the guilt of doing evil." Aristotle...

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Topica from Afar discusses many topics and ideas. It brings the far ranging to the here and now and it is meant to enlighten and teach those whose minds are open to endless possibilities. Being...

A wise old owl once told me, One time when he was out of his tree, That nothing in this world is for free. I agree!

People in love always tried to match the singles together, but what they didn't realize was that some people were meant to be alone. There was nothing wrong with that.

Through me you go to the grief-wracked city; Through me you go to everlasting pain; Through me you go a pass among lost souls. Justice inspired my exalted Creator: I am a creature of the Holiest...

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

Guilt - - if there was any guilt - - spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.

I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.

There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death.

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only...

Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,And look on death itself!

The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world, you'll see that teachers aren't particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the...

I don't see how it's doing society any good to have its members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams, and clear memories of hating them.

How many have died that I might live? And who has died that I might live?

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus...