an eudæmonist : 2026 : July

July 2026

the same river

4 July 2026, around 8.26.

A color photograph of a mountain river, the colors gradating from a deep blue green in the upper left corner, to a rosy buff color of the underlying stones in the lower right. Still, the water moves on.

No age is satisfied with itself; young men think of the future as more ideal than the present, old men the past.

—Jean Paul Richter (School for Aesthetics, trans. Margaret R. Hale, p. 56 (§21))

Tolerating blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

—Terry Tempest Williams (Refuge, 87%)

As the philosopher was leaving town, the tyrant commented, ‘Doubtless you’ll speak ill of me to your fellow philosophers.’ The philosopher paused: ‘I should hope, sir, that we would never be so short of topics for conversation that we would have to talk about you at all.’ 1

With apologies, of course, to Plutarch’s Life of Dion, 20.2–3 [↩]