Genius shovels loads of pleasure into the furnace, to the maximum, so that discipline’s hard labor cannot feel itself to be so deserving that it…

Triangulating Self: Cesarean, Epictetus, and the Higher Self: The Caesarean goal or means is never to take on risks; it is to remove them. The…

Purity is for collectors. The pure are for hunters and farmers.  X is for Y. And good breeding is for …, well, for “X is…

Abstract thinking is what we do about the gaps in language that we happen to come upon. Sometimes the gap is simply how we get…

Authoritarians are divined through the entrails of the history they sacrifice.   * What profound loneliness must accompany the Amish with insightful courage, knowledge of…

Precision lies within the bone of consciousness. When we finally see it, it is already an open fracture. * We tend to think of “things”…