It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires read more

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either read more

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love read more

[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
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My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smothered in surmise and nothing is
But what is not.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only read more

The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall
with a sudden crash.
[Lat., Omnia sunt read more

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall
with a sudden crash.
[Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo:
Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]