philosophy

“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” Nietzsche […]

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust

In their strange cosmogony predating Copernicus by two millennia, the ancient Greek scientific sect of the Pythagoreans placed at the

“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom,” James Baldwin admonished as he considered how we imprison ourselves,

“This is a participatory universe… Observer-participancy gives rise to information,” the visionary physicist John Archibald Wheeler wrote a generation before

The Marginalian was born on October 23, 2006, under an outgrown name, to an outgrown self that feels to me

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the

“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you,” Annie Dillard wrote in her beautiful essay on

It says something about our species that we have eradicated smallpox and invented vaccines and antibiotics for yellow fever and