Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.