Philosophic Year of the Dragon, 2024

 A great talent is almost always left to its own devices.

 Democracy begins where romanticism ends.

The pressing and looming feeling of something great and significant  in the future  that nonetheless does not occur is an exquisite torture for a sublime mind.

 Philosophy does not sell.

 Boredom is a feeling of loneliness plus nothing to do.

 Life is a painful process of realization.

 Self-sufficiency always requires a sacrifice.

 Silence is golden when you have nothing to say.

 When a goal is realized, there is a lack of purpose.

 The world is ruled by time and intention.

 Even when the choice is limitless, you can realize only a few possibilities.

 It is good when you have a choice, and it is even better when you do not.

 Laziness is a passive attempt to spare your energy.

 We do not want to die just as those beyond do not want to get born.

Happiness is to be distracted by life.

 To life for the future is the same mistake as not getting out of the past.

 The life  that is gone, and the life that is going on now, exists only in your mind.

 A strong denial erases objects from this world.

 Very often the search of God leads to finding oneself.

 While we kill time, it kills us.

 Disappointment is a deep feeling of discrepancy with the reality you imagine.

 If you want to enjoy life, do not try to find justification for your existence.

 Time is a subtle substance which leads to concrete results.