Tag: Pragmatism

• I thought that it was strange to assume that it was abnormal for anyone to be forever asking questions about the nature of the universe, about what the human condition really was, my condition, what I was doing here, if there was really something to do. It seemed to me on the contrary that it was abnormal for people not to think about it, for them to allow themselves to live, as it were, unconsciously. Perhaps it’s because everyone, all the others, are convinced in some unformulated, irrational way that one day everything will be made clear. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for humanity. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for me.

  2014-11-26

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• We do not have to think that human nature is perfect for us to still believe that the human condition can be perfected. We do not have to live in an idealized world to still reach for those ideals that will make it a better place. The non-violence practiced by men like Gandhi and King may not have been practical or possible in every circumstance, but the love that they preached — their fundamental faith in human progress — that must always be the North Star that guides us on our journey. For if we lose that faith — if we dismiss it as silly or naïve; if we divorce it from the decisions that we make on issues of war and peace — then we lose what’s best about humanity. We lose our sense of possibility. We lose our moral compass.

  2014-08-05

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• We do not have to think that human nature is perfect for us to still believe that the human condition can be perfected. We do not have to live in an idealized world to still reach for those ideals that will make it a better place. The non-violence practiced by men like Gandhi and King may not have been practical or possible in every circumstance, but the love that they preached — their fundamental faith in human progress — that must always be the North Star that guides us on our journey. For if we lose that faith — if we dismiss it as silly or naïve; if we divorce it from the decisions that we make on issues of war and peace — then we lose what’s best about humanity. We lose our sense of possibility. We lose our moral compass.

  2014-08-05

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• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar.

  2014-03-12

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• Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

  2014-03-01

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• Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

  2014-02-06

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• Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

  2013-11-30

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• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

  2013-11-30

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• Peace Justice Disarmament Poetry Inspiration Quotes Beauty Wisdom Future World Vision

  2010-04-10

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  Peace – First Day of Spring “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of…

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• Beginning –- “The Sleeper Must Awaken”

  2010-03-16

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  “A Beginning Is A Very Delicate Time” – Frank Herbert’s Dune I look forward to writing more in the near future. Good day everyone!

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