The philosophical tradition is often presented as a series of good students who understand the ideas of great thinkers.

But you really must think for yourself.

I hope the Europeans love their children too.

Try to lose hope
one at a time.

Keep it coming.

A Western

Let poetry teach you about women
at your peril.
Let a woman teach you about poetry
at your funeral.

Learn from paintings what a woman
looks like and
let the women teach you how to draw
                  first.

The little darkness will lift by morning.

The larger darkness will pass in time.

The pangrammatical supplement (as knowledge is to power) of perception is expectation. A perception is to a fact as an expectation to an act. "We are faced with the problem of error" (Quine).

You cannot know a world you cannot change.

You cannot master a history you cannot abide.

(What we master is never the world but our history. What we know is never our history but the world.)

There is a reality
at the heart
of this thing:

a body

where the person
in the mind
becomes the ideal.

We can't just say
the silence speaks.

We have to listen.