The root from which a tyrant springs

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector -Plato (~427 โ€“ ~347 BCE) The quote I've selected for this week's WQW is deeply troubling to me. It stopped… Continue reading The root from which a tyrant springs

The best ideas come as jokes…

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. -William Shakespeare (1564 โ€“ 1616) Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. -Marcus Aurelius (121 โ€“ 180) Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. -Plato (~423 โ€“ ~347 BCE) If… Continue reading The best ideas come as jokes…

We walk in circles, so limited…

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. -Sรธren Kierkegaard (1813 โ€“ 1855) Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. -Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 โ€“ 1881) Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. -Plato (~423 โ€“ ~347… Continue reading We walk in circles, so limited…