In-and-for itself. Ours is the worst and the best of all possible worlds.
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December 11, 2009Religious affiliation. The question of whether you should be practicing any religion at all is prior to the question of which religion you should practice. You can leap ahead to the latter question by having faith in faith or you can dwell forever on the former question by deciding on indecision.
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December 11, 2009The rhetorical appeal of logical priority. An argument a priori is a defense against any argument a posteriori, but an argument a posteriori is no attack against any argument a priori.
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December 11, 2009What is this thing called? I become hopeful again when even the most trivial difficulties are not misnamed “existential crises.”
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December 9, 2009A one-way relationship. The word does not make flesh, but the flesh makes words.
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December 9, 2009Suffering from success. To recover an insight which has become a cliché is not to restore its original meaning. It is only to resurrect the idea and return it to the living.
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December 9, 2009Photography and film. Neither of the major innovations of the 20th century world of arts has an essential relationship to the written word.
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