my better

You think of me, Ruth... as if I were a character in a book. And you make it a kind of poetical justice that I should, by some impossible means or other, come at last to marry the person that I love. But there is a higher justice than the poetical kind, my dear. I don't grieve for the impossible.
~ Tom Pinch in BBC's Martin Chuzzlewit

graffiti

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

"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.

sorrowful introspection

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

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