Weigh In

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. - Thoreau

taking the word of a drunk sleeping on a bench over aristotle anyday

heeding the doctrine of a people standing in line at a soup kitchen rather than that of socrates, listening instead to what they have to say

regarding the feelings of a person facing death over descartes as they desperately pray

following the rolling thoughts of someone confined to a wheelchair for the rest of their life rather than that which confuscius ever splayed

this is how my burdens of proof and measures of truth get weighed

Author's Note

“There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.” - Thoreau