Status Updates From Matches: A Light Book

“Aphorisms, representing a knowledge broken, do invite
men to inquire further; whereas methods, carrying the show
of a total, do secure men, as if they were at furthest.”
Bacon

Utere, non numera. “Use the hours, don’t count
them.”

Sometimes a lightning bolt is needed to instill caution and fear for one’s life among the lucky ones, when the greater danger meanwhile is from others.

Assuming that the universality of moral reason does not exist buried somewhere where we cannot see it, we must resign ourselves to never knowing if we could have achieved universality by cultural convergence rather than conquest.