Buddha: I am attached, therefore I suffer. De Botton: I suffer, therefore I think. Descartes: I think, therefore I exist.

Madison writing about hell: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”

These days I'll sit on corner stones And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend Don't confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them

“The summit of human existence is not knowledge, but experience.” George Battailles places lived intensity above intellectual mastery.

Sometimes people say “Coke” when they mean “Dr. Pepper”.

Which pony anon? #asknostr

Knowing self is understanding self.