I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War. ' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.
This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place.
Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body
Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.
The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context within which you can express the fullness of who you are. And who you are is an experience you have before you enter relationship, not because you did.
I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships.
I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very contested Cartesian illusion of reliability). Everything reaches us filtered through culture.
He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.