Hypocrisy

January 16, 2010

When offered leadership, he declines: he finds it distasteful. This allows a lesser and uglier man to take charge. Seeing this, he regrets not accepting and speaks out.

Humanity

January 16, 2010

Human beings will never crave what they cannot define.

Hubble’s Law

January 16, 2010

If the expansion is that of space itself rather than the movement of objects away from each other through space, how is any change perceptible via the motions of galaxies in space?

Horizon

January 16, 2010

The line at which sky and earth meet. Or sea and sky.

Hope

January 16, 2010

I’d like my writing (q.v.), when expressed in a theatrical context, to in- and excite debate. To illuminate societal inconsistencies / contradictions / difficulties. To express the philosophy (q.v.) of my world-view / attitude. To encourage hope.

Holy books

January 16, 2010

For the believer, holy books constitute an Encyclopaedia, containing all necessary knowledge and sufficient knowledge.

Heroes

January 16, 2010

The ones who live and prosper in the here and now.

Cf. me and my heroes, who deny that persuasion and so what can they do but live without prosper(o) in the past and future?

Heraclitus

January 16, 2010

panta rhei1

  1. Heraclitus of Ephesus, c. 540-480 bc

Hare Krsna

January 16, 2010

A man Hare Krsna-ing around the park like laps around a schoolyard. Is his God the ultimate headmaster?

Happiness

November 29, 2009

  1. The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.1
  2. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.2

1. Jeremy Bentham
2. Albert Camus, in The Myth of Sisyphus