The urge to impose one's notion of truth and worth perhaps comes from one's insecurity.

Many a truth is compromised in thought's search for meaning.

It it weren't for the flawed machinery of episodic memory, self affirmation would have been formidable.

Only the I knows the burden of me; and only thyself can tell its privileges

A meaningful thought can be discerned when it leaves its mark with a minimal possible footprint.

The overrated rationality is but a certain eventuality of any thought allowed to run its full course.

The genre of biography trumpets only some lives as remarkable. But whose life is any less uncommon?

For a mind compelled by curiosity, meaninglessness remains ephemeral.

If we pin worthiness on efforts or success, then eternally aflight Alpine swallows, most absurdly so, appear worthier than sedentary Koalas

Self and image

Just as mirror reflections of our outer selves are far from totality, so are social reflections of our inner selves. The "quality" of image is contingent not only on our perceptual sensitivities, but also on the adequacy of the reflectors we choose, and more so, on that of the obligatory mediums - light and language. Self-knowledge only begins with apprehending the illusional nature of the artifactual self.

Zero

Capable of obscuring everything known, 'zero' is perhaps the only numerical artifact that lends itself to multitude of philosophical inquisitions.

Science and purpose

The problem with the machinery of science, in its fascination to facilitate attaining as much of the desired with as little, seems not with its inattention to the undesirable, but with its nonchalance toward how the desirableness was constituted in the first place.

Compassion and meanings

Compassion seems to require an ability to not just understand the "meanings" others attach to their actions, but to appreciate the idiosyncratic circumstances that may have necessitated those specific meanings and not others.

Capitalism

The issue with capitalism is that it no longer remains an idea or an ideology open to social construction; alternatives are inconceivable; and when they are, they almost always end up either as yet another flavor of the same, or as subjects evaluated in its terms.

Language

Language is perhaps the most democratic invention of humankind.

Intelligence

To claim that humans are the most intelligent species - whether due to our genetic or cultural endowments - is itself an evidence to the contrary.

Ideology

The most fundamental thought held by enthusiasts of science or religion - a thought on which their entire system of truth is constructed on - is an ideology; for it is a thought that is based on testimony, not reason nor experience.

Disability

Disability must have had a different meaning in pre-capitalistic society; the pity in today's onlookers is evoked not from the disabled's lost natural entitlements, but from the forfeited market privileges.

Convenient ignorance

The grave concern is not the convenient ignorance of individual humans, but that of the society.

Imprints

It is the humblest of ideas, not people - however luminary they may be - that potentially imprints on the biographical spaces across generations.