Streams of Thought
Aphorisms in Prose and Poetry
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Time challenges all that we hold dear, Every moment gone forever, every hope turned to fear. I reject the raging currents of never-ending strife, Found the reason for existence in the love of my life. A good example torments the many and inspires the few. Tears come quickly to the eye, When age looks back with doleful sigh. Mistakes were made with full remorse, O’er life’s unforgiving course. Intuition leaps beyond reason’s steps to truth, revealing the inexplicable subtlety of human thought. Life without love is not so dear, A beating heart without a tear. Mere clockwork motion to and fro, No star within to make us glow. The writer who celebrates love addresses the only legitimate justification for this journey we call life Maturity can be measured by the number of errors we acknowledge. The real value of money is revealed by what money cannot buy. In war, fathers outlive their sons and vice outlives virtue
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From the author of Musings of a Meandering Stream, Streams of Thought offers innovative, provocative concepts that challenge the mind and inspire thought. With piercing wit and wisdom, Redheffer tackles a wide range of subjects such as agnosticism, beauty, doubt, hypocrisy, marriage, religion, science, sex, sin, and everything in between in over 1,100 original aphorisms.
An indifferent student yet widely knowledgeable, he has said that he never let school interfere with his education. At the age of seventy, he began to write down his thinking in aphoristic form. These aphorisms are faithful to his unique perspective on life. Most of all, these ideas will encourage the reader to think.
Absence
- Absence makes the heart ponder,
Is love to last or will it flounder?
- Absence puts friendship on the side, No way to nourish that which is denied.
- A writer’s greatest asset is a great reader.
- Writing aphorisms becomes an obsession, a magnificent obsession that drives one to explore every aspect of the human condition.
About the Author
Donald Patrick Redheffer was born in 1935 and is a graduate of DePaul University. Although a retired teacher of mathematics, his first love is philosophy. The author of Musings of a Meandering Stream, he is also an accomplished nature photographer. Mr. Redheffer is a native of Chicago, where he now resides.