Visiopoetics

“One is less lonely when one is alone.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.” - Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Smith, 1787

“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.” - Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”

“The time has come to air the Voice of Reason,
In a world gone mad, adrift on banal seas,
For all who feel that lies have had their season,
And whose Hearts Cry Out, instead, for Honesty…”
- Bill Hicks, “Le Manifeste des Comtes”

The Christian Science Monitor kindly features a poem, “Where did I put the night?”

In the event the night is recovered, there will be a very high reward for information leading to its return.

“if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine.” - Thoreau

Happy National Smile Week! Appropriately enough, it’s also finally the week of comprehensive exams in my graduate program, topping off the summer of studying for the comp, the whole comp, and nothing but the comp.

“All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no clearer ordinance of that supreme reason, often dark to us, which governs the course of man’s affairs, than that no body of men shall in the long run be able to strengthen itself at the cost of others’ weakness. The civilization and freedom of the ancient world were shortlived because they were partial and exceptional.” - T.H. Green, “Lecture on ‘Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract’ ”

Ars longa,
vita brevis,
occasio praeceps,
experimentum periculosum,
iudicium difficile.
- Hippocrates