Tag Archives: love

A Word about Words IV of XIII, or, Eloquence, what a shame!

Eloquence–what a shame!  The words that really matter, that make people melt or go off to war or commit themselves to some inner vision, they tend to be so common as to be crude or vulgar.  Hammer: how simple, but what it could build!  Child: how ordinary, but its possibilities!  Painter, writer, thespian, friend, enemy:…More

A Note on Nihilism

It’s different, how an individual–especially a philosopher, trained how he could be trained in times of crises–faces the threat of nihilism and how it is faced generally, for members of a social body generally under its throes.  While the former holds his head above, or at least at a distance–two or three centuries worth of…More

I think I’ll take a warm bath

They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching Thang to this effect: “Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again.” –Henry David ThoreauMore