In the same paradoxical and contradictory way that light is not just a particle but a wave, we are not ONLY human beings but beings of the universe. We encompass all the species of life above and below us, past and future. We encompass the earth. We encompass the physical universe. We are our bodies. We are both for and against our species. We both contain our species and a yearning towards the power of another future species. No matter what it says, long "logical" discoursive literature, even a short essay, beckons us only towards humanity. Descartes' "I think, therefore I am" really means "I am human, therefore I am". He was wrong.

Everywhere are essential, laughable, marvelous, frightening, mind-boggling paradoxes that we don't explore. We are both subject and object. We are both the center of the world and a speck of dust in an enormous human and physical universe. Death is the source of all fear and "no big thing". Eating is the most positive delightful activity and the most horrifying. DNA is just a bunch of stacked atoms and "God the Creator". "War is the father of all things" and the stupidest of all things. Not only the half-blind, mechanical-scientific perspective but almost all human discourse has no place for these paradoxes we bump into every day of our lives.

Aphorisms allow our dual nature. Aphorisms allow paradoxes. The possibilities of an aphorist have never been explored.