“Justice and mercy amounts to pity, mere efficiency, and reinforces the psychological need for guilt and helplessness; whereas justice and liberality empowers all by availing of courage rather than weakness in order to uphold the laws of a civilized society.”—————————————————————————————————–– Julian the Apostate Do you really know what it’s like to be overlooked as your

Know thyself: these were the two words inscribed on the entrance to the Oracle of Delphi.  Philosophia begins with this injunction—and so Plotinus begins where we all must necessarily begin: with oneself.  Who am I?  What am I?  Human experience contains many different facets: bodily sensation, emotion, conscious and subconscious thought, memory, intuition, and more. 

Apollyon appears out of nowhere to remove the head of Christianity – The Pilgrim’s Progress c. 1850 edition “To hell with everything—if these words have been uttered only once, coldly, with full awareness of what they mean, history is justified and, with it, all of us.” – Emil Cioran To everything be it a season,

“At what precise moment does an individual cease to be the person he—and everyone else—believes himself to be? Answer: at the moment when an individual becomes conscious that he has been trapped in a paradox of identity and there is no way out for him as long as he believes himself to be something he

“May we learn more & more how to see what is necessary in things as what is beautiful in them; therefore let us be of the kind who makes all things perfectly splendid; Amor fati: let that be our love from now on!” – In spirit of Friedrich Nietzsche & Flora Wingrave Love makes all

Nymphs and Satyr (1873) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) “What pleasure appears in incarnate clarity in the dance of the satyrs, a chorus of natural beings who live ineradicably, as it were, behind all civilization and remain eternally the same, despite the changes of generations and of the history of nations.”– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of