studio béluga


Aphorisms Five
June 29, 2009, 9:31 pm
Filed under: literary béluga, social béluga, theoretical béluga
  1. The only difference between an artist and a scholar is that the former knows he’s a charlatan and the latter doesn’t.  But this is a big difference.
  2. The complexity of an individual is directly proportional to the degree to which one cannot locate their centre.
  3. Humanity has one dream:  to live in an alternative reality to nature.  But we have only one means to achieve it:  nature.
  4. I’ve never found intimacy that intimate.
  5. The point about emptiness is not that it leads to calm indifferent compassion, but that it can lead to anything.
  6. Democracy is the tyranny of the stupid.
  7. Love is only interesting when the risk of death is present.
  8. Most people stop developing intellectually and spiritually sometime between 16 and 25; the rest of their lives is devoted to covering up this fact.
  9. I’ve never pretended to be anything other than a fraud.
  10. There is only one thing to learn–compassion; only one teacher–suffering; and only one lecture–silence.
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your aphorisms remind me of these theorisms:

http://muller.lbl.gov/

…you should look into corollaries!

Comment by Svea Vikander July 1, 2009 @ 11:57 pm
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Yes, and I’ll also add prefaces, definitions, axioms, and lemmas. Then I’ll change my name to Baruch.

Comment by Jude Peer July 2, 2009 @ 6:23 am
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