Most people don't have the time to become "serious" philosophers (write a book, etc.); this site is an outlet for the straggling insights that they are able to share. Whether your thoughts are manicured or inchoate, if you want to impart your perspectives, perceptions, intuitions, or counter-intuitions on life, politics, nature, the color yellow, anything!- this is the place to do so. I’ll share insights that I've had, and continue to contribute as thoughts come to me.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
There's fashion...and then there's common sense.
It's only called 'jealousy' if it's based on unfounded fabrication. If it's based on actual observation, though, it's called 'accurate appraisal.'
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Pay attention to the details, but don't get caught up in the minutiae.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
For better or for worse, for one's nice possession to confer status, everyone else must agree that it's nice first.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Money doesn't grow on trees. That's why we have 401(k)s.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Are you trying to fit in...or stand out?
Thursday, December 9, 2010
For undergrad, there's a saying that between sleeping, studying, and partying, there is time for only two. Well, in grad school, there is time for only one.
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." -George Eliot
"To be the best, you gotta be willing to pay the price, every day, every time you get out there, you gotta be willing to hurt, there is no other way" -Niko
"And this above all else: to thine own self be true- and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." -Polonius, Hamlet
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" -Mark Twain
"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." -Oliver Wendell Holmes
