The use of contracts is the common way individuals, especially those engaged in business functions, come together and set forth conditions in which each side agrees on. Its primary purpose is to override

A criticism you'll often hear about people who hold onto firm beliefs without looking at the possibilities is that they are being overly dogmatic, rigid to the point of restricting or even causing additional

Don't read your fellow-strivers, fellow-workers...—Goethe I've been noticing recently, a yearning for intellectual and spiritual support among those going along with the reactionary sentiment against the

One of the most common things about our age, increasingly so as everything becomes digitized, is the impatience among people in regards to seeking information and knowledge. I understand this sentiment,

During my relatively short time on this planet I've come to realize truth is a never ending search, this should be obvious to anyone who engages in a life of ideas; but a challenging realization is that

What makes things work on their own is natural, simple, and beautiful aspect of life. It's a sophisticated aesthetic present in all things, it just takes a good eye to notice them and an even more sturdy

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.—Amos Bronson Alcott Medicine, under the conventional way it's been understood, is the body of knowledge and system dealing with health in

I was watching some seagulls on a pier, it seemed like they were just chillin', but after paying close attention it came to me that they were waiting for something, either food or some signal to do something

Thinking about the subject of "natural rights" and the way justice is suppose to work, it's sort of trying to understand a misnomer; no such thing as rights exist in and of itself, however, when

...an offensive against the unpredictability, unpunctuality, general waywardness and cussedness of living nature including man.—E. F. Shumacher Over the past three centuries, a main feature about civilization

I was recently watching some of the Pipeline Masters, the last stop on the World Surf League tour in North Shore, Oahu, where I became sort of disturbed at the lack of general creativity and uniqueness

In North American vernacular it's common to distinguish South and North America as a separate continent. I don't remember the exact details of where or how this came to be, although the original Portuguese

A lot has been said about the current state of education, how bad it is or how things need to be changed. Not being part of its official milieu anymore, whenever I hear people mentioning anything about

Self-Reliance, by Emerson, has always been a favorite essay of mine ever since I first read it as an adolescent; the man's prolific body of work is a great example of how education, in its true sense,

It's a widely known cliche that money is the root of all evil. Even though tyrants in history especially in recent times have all been the biggest money-haters, the mass sentiment of the populace still

There's no question that absolute tyranny and seeing the despicable sight of power over others is soul crushing. Ask anyone who has gone through any form of extreme authoritarianism, war, or genocide,

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.—Montaigne During times of blatant or concealed oppression, when things seem not to be right with the world, it's common to have feelings of anger, frustration,

If you were an alien coming from outer space, you would first look at Earth from a distance noticing the various land masses, atmospheric phenomena, and the vast bodies of water. A discerning alien might

It's hard to put a number on the amount of time wasted on studying subjects which are frankly useless and corrupting. To be sure, there's always the benefit of learning from experience; but in regards

I come across artists scattered in all different types of fields that are either overlooked or barely get any appreciation. For the inattentive eye, this might seem normal if these artists are not great