The problem with an inferiority complex is that those affected by it look down on their own knowledge. This strongly impedes their ability to take in new knowledge because they cannot integrate it with what they already know.
The good life
Quotes
The meaning of life is thus a bit like playing with a live hand grenade. Once you pass it on to somebody else, you are safe. – Yuval Noah Harari
The good life
Don’t ask what Putin can do for you, ask what you can do for Putin – D. Trump
Laughs
An earlier version of this obituary misstated the name of Mr. Hoagland’s first poetry collection. It is “Sweet Ruin,” not “Sweet Rain.”
Poetry
“You are colonizing a place in my mind that i didn’t know existed before, so, can i call it home?”
Poetry
Te only thing more important than health, is a sense of purpose.
The good life
I seek the company of others not to celebrate my narcissism, but to suppress it.
Philosophy
“The secret courtesy that courses like ichor
Through the old form of the rude, full-scale joke,
Impossible to tell in writing.” – Robert Pinsky, Impossible to Tell
Poetry
My words that are idiot contracts written to the music of escape.
Philosophy
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The good life
I want my words to live in a redeeming, magnificent song
to worship the hole in freedom
Philosophy
Poem
, in which we are not immortal
but our identities dissolve in-
to one another and we are only
a little bit afraid to call it love
Poetry
Madness is tragedy deprived of time
Philosophy
Call me if you are a publisher and I will see if I can mention you in my next poem
Philosophy
Not what you do professionally
but what can entertain you defines who you are.
Philosophy
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
William Shakespeare
Poetry
But how can art keep us alive when it cannot kill us?
Philosophy
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. – Salman Rushdie
Philosophy
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: All of them make me laugh.” — W.H. Auden
The good life
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. – Audre Lorde
Poetry
“a good poem corrals the mind of the reader, but leaves the gate open” – found on the Internet
Poetry
What power is only poetry can say.
Poetry
“I have made a tribe of my affections, and my tribe is scattered” – Stanley Kunitz
Poetry
“Attention is the natural prayer of the soul.” – Malebranche
Philosophy