Thought for tomorrow
“Champion your mistakes. Don’t let them determine you.” – the infamous Captain Walker (May 2015)
Observations on the world and its inhabitants
“Champion your mistakes. Don’t let them determine you.” – the infamous Captain Walker (May 2015)
“Understanding how much one has learned is also about appreciating how much one has forgotten.“ – Captain Walker, March 2014.
“Let’s not be afraid of each other’s mortality – and in so doing avoid each other – we share the same end.” – Captain Walker – 2014-01-20
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more ...
What if you speak a truth that is so unpalatable to the rest of the human race? What does that mean? The current status quo dictates that you are marked for ‘exclusion’. Who do you think you are? The ‘establishment’ shall not be disturbed. Now bugger off and think about it (or not).
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. – Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde
“It’s been said that rules are made for fools. Even so, fools are made by rules.” – Captain Walker (June 2013)
“A moral fire is sometimes uncontrollable by the law.” – Captain Walker (June 2013)
‘Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;So on the ocean of life we pass and speak once another,Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and silence.’ – HW Longfellow, ‘The Theologian’s Tale: Elizabeth’ in Tales of a Wayside ...