“Those who hide are not necessarily evil.”
Please enjoy a few maxims from my memoirs in the order they were written. - DAVID
15. ‘As man moves’ is an uncovering of what is true. Thus, as man moves becomes ‘How man moves’. The terror of this revelation is not in the movement of our being, but the trajectory of our temporal procession. Death, the void is our true north. A life well-lived is our cardinal direction. This is so even in the absence of a Platonic realm of true forms. Life as the teleology of death.
16. The inheritance of history separates man from beast.
17. Man is in part due to his interaction with beings and objects.
18. Even after death, the gaze of a father remains.
19. Arrogance is a belief in the self as all-knowing. Humility is the acknowledgment of personal error, combined with the confidence to correct an error. Humility is superior to dogma.
20. The price of humility is the pain of updating fallible beliefs and values.
21. Whence came these values? From within or without? It is the dawn of a dark day upon the realization of harsh truth. For the so-called value of altruism to originate from within is the evidence of a sickly and feeble nature. An even greater horror is for the strong to apprehend such a value, and the members of its set, from without as social conditioning. Such corruption of nobility is consciously unbearable. This awakening to a gross violation and notorious abuse often serves as the catalyst of a most righteous revenge — a revenge in which only blood is a proper recompense.
22. Those who continually stand in need of forgiveness must continually forgive. The righteous extend forgiveness and mercy as a truly unconditional gift. Beware of manipulators that equate righteousness with perfection, in an attempt to fraudulently extract forgiveness from us nobles, in a ploy to absolve themselves of the consequences of their own misbehavior.
23. Intelligence is capacity. Intellect is the utility of that capacity.
24. We learn when we adapt modes of behavior while exploring unknown territory, in a movement towards the ontological end of being.
“Arrogance is a belief in the self as all-knowing”
28. Who do we have to be other than ourselves to speak truth?
29. But I don’t merely want to possess wisdom as an accessory, but as my being.
30. Being is prior to phenomenology. Subject and object is after dasein and world.
31. We are preoccupied with the creation of instruments of technology, thus blinded to the affect of these instruments on our being and existence.
“The price of humility is the pain of updating fallible beliefs and values. ”
33. We declare who we are under the prejudice that the totality of our being is defined by the subjective “we”, when we are the “are”.
34. There is a remnant among us who rejects status along socioeconomic metrics. Our status is measured by our degree of knowledge and the actualization of the essence of our being.
35. Those who hide are not necessarily evil. The noble philosopher is often forced into an occultic mode of being to escape the prosecution of the mob.
36. Conflict amongst kith and kin is unavoidable. The tragedy of inappropriate warmongering is often a primary motivation. The sickly among us wage war against the noble individual in order to exalt the herd as a golden calf. Nobles war with each other as the expression of being as the will to power, so that man can create after his own kind as a sanctified and actualized model for all to esteem.
37. The essence of our most noble conflicts is the smoldering results of the will to individuate.
38. The philosopher is the most terrifying and uncanny of figures because his type is one who most closely resembles the most substantial men of old, whose mode of being provoked the wrath of God.
39. The philosopher must be prepared to die in obscurity.