history of art

optimism

poem

poetry

occupation / innovator as

university teacher

jurist

nationality

Israeli

judge

innovator in the field of

evidence

Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel

tort

medical error

Law and economics

is like a stratified fossil record of evolving human consciousness. It tells of our submariner existence in the sea of unknowing.

The history of art is like a stratified fossil record of evolving human consciousness. It tells of our submariner existence in the sea of unknowing.

is a political act, in contrast to cynicism, which, insofar as it settles for the status quo, amounts to obedience.

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience. Alex Steffen

 should be no longer than the person who writes it.

A poem should be no longer than the person who writes it.

is the ripple from a stone that has broken the surface of a still water.

Poetry (all thought, really) is the ripple from a stone that has broken the surface of a still water.

Zen is an order, that's all. Neither better nor worse, fundamentally, than any other order. It is not a mystic order. If anything, it is a utilitarian order that occasionally opens out into the mystic the way a hoe in a field occasionally upturns a truffle. I can also tell you what I was told, when I asked the same question: Zen is a wound.

is an order, that's all, not a mystic order, if anything, a utilitarian order that occasionally opens out into the mystic the way a hoe in a field occasionally upturns a truffle.

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