Good

Hilma af Klint, Tree of Knowledge, No. 1 (1913–15)

He said that he was nearest to the gods because he had the fewest needs.

—Diogenes Laertius, “Socrates”

And that there is only one good, knowledge,

and only one evil, ignorance.

These few words, it would seem, say all we really need to know.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, translated by A. Robert Caponigri (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1969)

Monday, January 26, 2026