There are about 2,000 “Observations” in this book.
Aging is time’s evidence.
Boredom feeds commerce.
Hunger motivates.
Truth can withstand scrutiny.
Strife is the home of discord.
Marriage is a structural problem.
Survival is a ferocious spectacle.
The wealthy battle affluence.
Serendipity has its own schedule.
Time reveals.
Wisdom has the steepest price.
Religion is the aphrodisiac we use to seduce our minds.
What we don’t see far exceeds what we do see.
That which is large grows from that which is small.
God should be studied as an historical figure.
Our existence hinges on our response abilities.
Those with boundaries will be confined.
Fear and insecurity feed on each other.
Shared knowledge accelerates growth.
The subconscious mind sounds the first alarm.
Restraint is an unheralded virtue.
Frugal is elegant; cheap is vulgar.
The unsaid may exceed the importance of the said.
Perfectionists never rest.
Truth changes.
Too much of anything is too much.
Dogma dies.
It’s irrational to discuss logic with the irrational.
We cannot not judge.
Time is a tyrant.
A closed mind atrophies.
Life is driven by commerce but sustained by nature.
The clock rules.
The unsaid requires no explanation.
Life is about staying alive.
We are free to choose our acts but not their consequences.
We meet someone for the first time only once.
The marriage of knowledge and humility yields wisdom.
Desire is the mother of deception.
Ignorance compounded by arrogance is exhibited as stupidity.
Error is the dark side of perfection.
Perspective clarifies.
Religion invents itself.
We know far less than what we don’t know.
Religious dogma is junk-food for the mind.
Wisdom trumps valor.
The lens through which we look determines what we see.
Life is a work in progress.
Illogic does not allow logic into the game.
Chaos ripples.