Tuesday, November 27, 2007

graffiti

With so much beauty in the world, why is the propensity of man towards ugliness?

Saturday, November 24, 2007

"God is dead" is a smokescreen.
A frantic warping of the truth.

It is we who are dead.
Is the worst part of life watching what people become?
Change is inevitable.

It is almost inevitably for the worse.
Colorful language is a misnomer.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

sorrowful introspection

Is the question, "What happened to me?" or, "What have I become?"

Saturday, November 17, 2007

quotes from school

In one of my classes at Gutenberg, Western Civ, we read great books, or selections from them. Martin Luther, John Calvin, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Voltaire, and Adam Smith are among the noble geniuses this term. As I read these great works, quotable jewels sometimes appear. Heed this timeless wisdom:

Indeed, as infant boys need beyond all else to be cherished in the bosoms and by the hands of maidens to keep them from perishing, yet when they are grown up their salvation is endangered if they associate with maidens...
~ Martin Luther, Freedom of a Christian

Rather let us willingly abstain from the search after knowledge, to which it is both foolish as well as perilous, and even fatal to aspire. If an unrestrained imagination urges us, our proper course is to oppose it with these words, "it is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory," (Prov. xxv.27)
~ John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion