A piece from my alter ego 📜 The Bard to the Stars ✨ [bard (noun) poet] #presence #mindfulness #intention #aphorism #bardtothestars

"The life of the mind only attains its truth when discovering itself in absolute desolation."
— #Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), quoted in #Adorno, Minima Moralia (1951), "Dedication", discussing why #aphorism now is crucial means to this. #quotesky

"If today the [human] subject is vanishing, aphorisms take upon themselves the duty “to consider the evanescent itself as essential”."
— #Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections On A Damaged Life (1951), "Dedication," riffing on #Hegel.
#Aphorism #LiteraryFragment #MinimaMoralia #booksky #quotesky

A piece from my alter ego 📜 The Bard to the Stars ✨ [bard (noun) poet] #unresolvedproblems #gettingunstuck #aphorism #bardtothestars

A tree survives winter only to break under its own fruit. #aphorism

A piece from my alter ego 📜 The Bard to the Stars ✨ [bard (noun) poet] #aphorism #arrogance #overinflatedconfidence #impostersyndrome #bardtothestars #poetry

Aphorisms are the solera method of thought; maxims, temporary convictions on the way up; fragments, hair of the dog. #aphorism

Maxims should be written, never read, at gunpoint. #aphorism

Elections: just enough noise to delay tyranny. #aphorism

Comfort is just discomfort, deferred. #aphorism

A native begs for change. #aphorism

Violence never fails to impress. #aphorism

In court, reason was once the plea — now insanity. #aphorism

Freedom! Going, going, gone. #aphorism

Evil does good by accident. Good does evil thoroughly. #aphorism

Machines get better. The sick wait. #aphorism

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Economics makes the possible necessary; politics, the necessary impossible. #aphorism #economics #politics

Every Titanic is built by its iceberg. #aphorism #titanic

The rich hunger for experience. The poor experience hunger. #aphorism #hunger #experience

#philosophy #poetry #aphorism #RiotAtTheRITE

One of the greatest sins against Music
& Nature is how Western Culture
has commercialized everything.

A sign is that kids grow up now
around ppl who no longer sing…
who no longer know poems by heart…

#Trekking in #wilderness is where
that might heal…🌎

Happiness leaves no forwarding address. #aphorism #happiness

To mature is to sour. #aphorism

In an affair, the stranger grows familiar — and the familiar strange. #aphorism

The prison gate, coyly ajar. #aphorism

Freedom! Going, going, gone. #aphorism

Procrastination is remembering Churchill — and deciding not to be a fucking war hero. Heroism declined. #aphorism

My aphorism stands on two legs — punch and depth — seduces on its back, comes fast. #aphorism

Radicalism does not subside — it sheds its skin. #aphorism