Home
“For there we loved and where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”– Oliver Wendell Holmes I jotted this quote down on my phone in a common area at the college library I used to attend in Nashville, Trevecca University. It was at least 7 years ago, and…
Reason
“Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.”– Theodore Dreiser Instinct and reason both help advance the human species. However much of our evolution has relied on instinct as the primary…
Surprises
“Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected.”– Michael Lewis The only thing we can truly predict in this world is that the world will be unpredictable. This can scare some people, as we naturally don’t like surprises, but acceptance is the cure. Another way to describe…