Daydreams are repetitive; introspections, iterative.

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A fair trade does not mean equal benefit or risk, for a reason. One cannot examine a trade outside of the parties’ dependences on their respective circumstances. On the other hand, a perfectly equal share for everyone, in all things, does not mean that personal effort and sacrifice could be squeezed into the criteria, for another reason. The closest that nature gets to fairness, given our inability, is alternating unfairness.

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A good friendship is an imaginary bridge where alternating forgivers supply both sides of land as needed to keep the water flowing under the obvious.

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Hierarchies are more likely to be satisfied by asymmetrical arrangements than calculable equality. Order settles in by individual resolutions of Law of Effect. But precisely those principle-neglecting adjustments are considered to be the corruption. Order or chaos? Order and principle.

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History stops where it stops serving the present hierarchy.

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In the end, Shakespeare may have contributed more to mankind than Einstein. But that depends upon how “the end” finally unfolds itself and how much time we will have for contemplation.

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Novel ideas are actionable. Like fishing, there is a lot of forced contemplation. One stares at a placid surface in unfulfilled anticipation till … it tugs and leaps! Everything immediately before and after is suddenly “recordable.”

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Reduced discernment is tonic for the spirit. While an increase can be ecstatic, the risks are great.

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A rational approach regulates the discussion till the weaker argument collapses, leaving the regulator standing over it and the reputation for being decisive conveniently apparent.

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Legion: A great moralist is never self-made. There is a social process of culling and reworking ideas according to the survival of social harmony.

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At some quantity, not very large, a majority agreement employs the acquiescence of the apathetic.

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Forcing wisdom is liberating stupidity, one’s own.

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Events that unfold according to expectation are already narratives, but narratives can still have surprise endings.

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The grand presentation of the final step to world harmony was on the cusp of success, only the emergence of the best emcee for the occasion was lacking. The suspense along the red carpet was killing us: Who had positioned themselves best?

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Correct thinking begins with output, because in the end, input is either dependent upon the last output or deception itself.

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The ultimate would be to melt into one’s own happiness and not wake back up again, but that puts enlightenment as “awakening” in a negative light, so our little fairytale godmothers just tell the story anyway. Many illusions are stable and there is nothing preventing us from playful experiments.

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There is less panic with losing a great leader than there is with losing one position within the social order. There is no principle for the calculation of value if it leaves oneself without esteem. The latter is unthinkable; the former, entertainment. Tragedy is the highest sadness that grief could ever buy, but chaos is priceless.