December 2010
22 posts
When I grow up...
I just want to live my life with the same enthusiasm I had before I grew up.
“What if fine isn’t good enough? What if I want extraordinary?”
– Hitch (another bloncore)
What a blessing...
is a friend with a heart so trustworthy that you may safely bury all your secrets in it, and whose conscience you may fear less than your own.
“Come on, it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you.”
So far away
…been far away for far too long
“I thought maybe we could make gingerbread houses, and eat cookie dough, and go...”
– Buddy the Elf
Intrueition
Philosophy is grounded in a never-ending search for the truth. What is it? Why is it? How do we know?
Epistemology (a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature and limitations of knowledge) has outlined four “ways of knowing”:
1) Observation
2) Logic
3) Authority
4) Intuition
Intuition - the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning
...
“What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An...”
– Leonardo Dicaprio - Inception
“But you don’t always have to hold your head higher than your heart.”
– Jack Johnson - Hope
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be...”
– Francis Bacon
Live Like We’re Dying - Kris Allen
Back to...
Smile - Uncle Kracker
Moment of clarity...
essence - the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, esp. something abstract, that determines its character
The essence of your social circle can be traced back to one quality: the quality that you value most in another individual. Now, when we talk about values it is crucial that we understand and respect that everyone possesses a unique set of them, for a unique set of reasons....
“Never speak more clearly than you think.”
– Jeremy Bernstein
