Aphorisms

Aphorism 1. The sage of the East could only find meaning in suffering. There I have found none.

Aphorism 2. The meaning of life is simple. It is to love someone else.

Aphorism 3. The Greatest Psychiatrist, his simple theory was that people need to love another.

Aphorism 4. On the shield of Achilles were the sacraments of peace. For war must sometimes be fought so peace can be enjoyed.

Aphorism 5. For the crime of adultery was a war fought; in the end, it was fought to defend the right of the married.

Aphorism 6. There is truth.

Aphorism 7. The most brilliant mind in history believed all things would relate back to chemistry.

Aphorism 8. I believe in God because what choice have I without Him?

Aphorism 9. The poet once sung a song about how sin was life's spice---I agree, yet only when those sins are in season.

Aphorism 10. A nation without Christ's law is a nation that has no joy.

Aphorism 11. The Chemical man is destined to perish.

Aphorism 12. "It is written in the DNA!", yet Christ can remove what's written or add to it all the same.

Aphorism 13. A man pursues, and a woman accepts him.

Aphorism 14. The delinquent child sees every fault in a man.

Aphorism 15. Book burning starts with offense.

Aphorism 16. The rich are protected by their wealth from consequences.

Aphorism 17. Stories are dreams, and like all dreams they have a moral.

Aphorism 18. If one doubts their God because of the Garden of Eden, they do not understand omnipotence.

Aphorism 19.  If science is a stumbling block to faith, then it was a faith built on faulty understanding.

Aphorism 20. I believe in God because I observe there is moral certainty.

Aphorism 21. I believe in Jesus because His morals are certain.

Aphorism 22. What is sweeter than honey and has a heart more courageous than a lion's? One who loves.

Aphorism 23. Justice is imperfect. But without it, there can be nothing just.

Aphorism 24. A man's greatest virtue is his greatest vice---a kind man knows this, so is humble toward others.

Aphorism 25. When reading is a mirror, it is not a message.

Aphorism 26. Do not be the scholar who scoffs at Michelangelo.

Aphorism 27. It, is, sentimental to want to free slaves.

Aphorism 28.  In a world where good is not logical, it must fall back to how you feel.

Aphorism 29. The Fruit of Knowledge was a pomegranate , not an apple. Does this pedantic piece of information make a difference?

Aphorism 30. It was once said to me an apple was the fruit of knowledge because of its complex genetic code; I'd say that person was absolutely right.

Aphorism 31. Societies dictate mores. They do not dictate morals.

Aphorism 32. Eating a fella was heartily approved of in some advanced cultures. It makes you think about what things we get wrong.

Aphorism 33. If a law makes what's right wrong, or what's wrong right, it ought not be followed.

Aphorism 34. The great novelists wanted real life in fiction, until now we have made real life into its own fiction.

Aphorism 35. Where before emotions were realistic in art, now violence is realistic in art.

Aphorism 36. There is nothing certain, but a leap of faith.

Aphorism 37. In a silly way, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division explain everything in this world.

Aphorism 38. The Irish have luck. The Germans have will. Success is a balance of both these things.

Aphorism 39.  A healthy man is the one who seeks the welfare of others over himself.

Aphorism 40. The reason Confucianism works is that its core tenet is "Honor thy Father."

Aphorism 41. History is written by the multitudes who choose a man to lead them.

Aphorism 42. Strange disputes are caused by a warped logos.

Aphorism 43. The logos is the commonly understood truth.

Aphorism 44. In the poet's epic, Satan used knowledge to cause doubt; yet, we ought to fundamentally know what is good and dispel it.

Aphorism 45. gods were metaphors to Pagans; this does not suffice as a reason for me to believe in them.

Aphorism 46.  If the enumeration of the constitution are protected from other rights, then why does an employer get to discriminate against me based on my free speech?

Aphorism 47. Thou shalt not murder and thou shalt not rape are not the only morals.

Aphorism 48. A man guilty of all blood has no chance of ever becoming good, should his crimes stay fettered to him. 

Aphorism 49. Truth is not whatever we think. Truth is what two people have independently stumbled upon without knowledge of the another.

Aphorism 50. It is the right of the governed to be served by those governing them. Not the other way around.