Thursday, February 05, 2026

Maybe it's not so much
that the mind seeks truth
and the heart, justice, but
that the mind seeks truth
and the heart just seeks.

Monday, January 26, 2026

Wittgenstein was right. Philosophy must be composed like poetry. But, instead of extracting what Pound called "the data of ethics," emotions at their first intensity, from the vortex of history, it must arrange the propositions of science perspicuously to reveal our concepts.

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Those days are over.
Others are in store.

Friday, January 16, 2026

Wisdom of Thomas More

Keep your affairs regular,
your moods, seasonal.

Concepts are to knowledge

(the hold we have on it)

what emotions are to power

(the hold they have on us).