"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward into ever-widening thought and action."
I've never cared to prepare or eat stewed tomatoes.
My Philosophy
Eudaimonism
What Gives Me Hope
There is an order to all phenomena.
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by
Understanding that it is not within my control to "make" the world "better". But I could 'play my part' to facilitate communications and actions towards understanding and compassion.
What/who changed my life and why
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead - my introduction to Objectivism, helped me to understand my institutionalized prejudices.
"It is in the very nature of reason to fuse cognitive and moral horizons. Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love." Sam Harris in The End Of Faith