Archive for December, 2006
Up on a soapbox
When do we get to play? Why does brilliance need an excuse?
Never provoked
From the Thoreau blog:
“Some men make their due impression upon their generation, because a petty occasion is enough to call forth all their energies; but are there not others who would rise to much higher levels, whom the world …
A distinct view of the naked whole
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations:
“When an object presents itself to your perception, make a mental definition or at least an outline of it, so as to discern its essential character, to pierce beyond its separate attributes to a distinct view …