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Quotes of Russ Lindquist (me!)
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- Transcending 'ethics', transcending 'philosophy' in general - "no justice; no peace" is among the inescapable ultimate-truths.
- A respectable democracy requires an informed citizenry that makes conscious choices on rational grounds.
- You have the potential to humble me; but I, alone, have the potential to humiliate me.
- My two favorite things: kineseology (the study of actions), and ethics (the study of interactions)
- I can think of no better metaphor for the priorities of life than to pull weeds in a vegetable-garden.
- Though you may be certain that you "deserve" it, and that it is "within your right" - still, do you really NEED the human-hamster-wheel of greed and apathy?
- Life is an hourglass: the top container is potential; the bottom container is manifestation; in the center, where potential becomes manifestation, is choice. Therefore, nothing is more important, in life, than to combine, in your actions and thoughts, these two things: 1) good priorities, 2) resoluteness.
- One of the most pernicious ideas is that, "to do the same thing and expect different results is to be insane." This idea is pernicious because it implies that it is possible to do the same thing twice, and that you can be aware of enough variables, in life, so to know that you are "doing the SAME thing twice". This works for pharmacology, et cetera - but not for an introspective life.
- Our culture awards - as much as any other quality - passivity. No wonder, then, that the otherwise respectable assertiveness of our culture's black people frequently keeps them at the bottom of the social-ladder. No wonder, also, that our culture's white people are, now, so commonly, consistently passive-aggressive that it seems to be downright genetic.
- I just read that, "Regret and Indecision are two of the greatest thieves of life." And I thought: what about the person who regrets nothing, by a lack of introspection? Should such a person be said to have well-avoid one of the 'greatest thieves of life'? Then I thought: and a person without indecision, by dearth of foresight - would such a person well-avoid the another of the 'greatest thieves of life'? Instead: each is a tool with a purpose, neither to be neither misused nor scapegoated altogether.
- Many in our culture have foolishly come to believe that the benefits of positive self-esteem has no limit: the higher you esteem yourself, the better. In reality, your self-estimation should be accurate, and anything 'more' than accurate will be debilitating.
- Prostate-cancer is more important than breast-cancer, because men are more important than women. The preceding is a reverse-negative of our popular culture.
- I am always willing to say the following, when appropriate: "it seems that you are too ready to steal my energy, and not ready enough to build mutual energy. you missed your chance. goodbye." Everyone should be self-respecting in that way; particularly, though, if more men were willing to convey that self-respect to women...our society would be very different.
- I recently overheard an acquaintance say, "Too many idiots, too little villages." To which I responded: "and each 'idiot' was, at one point, a confused, overwhelmed, helpless, trusting 5-year-old. Still, I do recognize that there is, in our culture, an imaginary cut-off line of age, and that once a person is past the imaginary cut-off, it is thought by many that the person ceases to deserve concern, and begins to, instead, deserve dislike. The moral: just as you have grown past the imaginary cut-off and so many people are more ready to dislike you than to be concerned for you, and just as you feel the same towards those whom you think have passed the imaginary age cut-off - in this same way, one day your child will also pass - in the minds of others - an imaginary age cut-off, and then many who previously would have shown concern for her - they will simply dislike her... and call her names...like 'idiot'."
- I am above no one, beneath no one, and no one is my equal.
- If you would like to seem interesting, then be interested!
- To me, all people are - or at least have the potential to be - quite interesting. And only by suffering much intimidation - and frequently from themselves - such that they do not rightly convey who they are - only by such sabotage can a person seem 'uninteresting'.
- Our culture's men can love our culture's women, but cannot respect them; while our culture's women can respect our culture's men, but cannot love them. These are circumstances which are entirely owed to socialization: our men are taught to be respectable, even at the expense of being lovable; while our women are taught to be lovable, even at the expense of being respectable.
- A sexist mindset is debilitating. Yes - even for a woman.
- Plenty mistake the physical and spiritual as disparate.
- A disgusting, sexist maxim: "there is never an excuse to hit a woman."
- In people, there can be two types of beauty: inner and outer. The outer is precarious and can never endure; the inner, measured by mind and deed, can endure.
- Potential has potential.
- Time is the fundamental currency of life.
- Objective worth requires more than self-esteem.
- By all standards but patriotism, a (willing) soldier is a psychopath.
- We ought never to confuse someone's timidity as humility, nor a lack of timidity as a lack of humility.
- Just as a small library - well-organized - is better than a huge, cluttered library - so to is a mind with less concepts - but ones which are solid - better than a mind cluttered with quantity of thoughts but no quality.
- Tomorrow, ask ten women what "misogyny" means. Then ask ten men what "misandry" means. Then go back to sleep.
- Attention quote-junkies: statements are not true - and certainly not profoundly true - simply by playing with language.
- Pedestals are small, confined spaces.
- If your days are already full, then you must create space, if you want something new.
- Every freedom requires greater personal responsibility.
- A facade of weakness can be quite a strength; a facade of strength can be quite a weakness.
- As complex as is the world, it is dangerous to pander to the passivity of "an eye for an eye leaves the world blind". No. Rather: at times, "an eye for an eye" is an effective way to dissuade your attacker from blinding your world.
- Art: short. Life: shorter. Truth: Eternal.
- Even the most well-meant changes can be wrong; even the best changes can be cyclical.
- Bad influences are partners in crime - partnering with us in crimes against ourselves; good influences are partners in creativity - helping us to be and to do that which we think that we should.
- When at odds, which is your priority: honesty or popularity?
- Durable solutions to confliction require reasonableness:
reasonable laws sustain; tyrannical laws decay. - If your goal is to be truly happy with who you are, where you are, and who you are with - nothing can substitute for honesty.
- Wisdom requires that you humbly appreciate others' self-definition
- What I pride myself on, as much as anything else, is my great humility.
- One of the worst maxims ever: "It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." Such is proper only to cowards and flatterers. Rather: "the wise have foolishness for only a short time, because they seek to learn from their ignorance or wrongness, not hide it."
- Before you run off to "seek out" truth - know this: it is all around you; you need only be receptive to it.
- The weakling who keeps a level head, a keen eye, and a steady hand only under desirable or agreeable circumstances is worth very little.
- You can stand behind good choices; but bad choices, you can only stand under.
- A fool's philosophy: "If you speak ill of yourself, you are necessarily humble; if you speak well of yourself, you are necessarily proud."
- If you tell someone what he or she wants to hear, when you know it differs from what he or she ought to hear, you are a coward, a flatterer, a snake.
- A faulty blame teeters atop every faulty excuse.
- Each coward and every liar invests, by necessity, in a scapegoat.
- Praise is a reward; derision is a punishment. So which is fair - indiscriminate praise, or indiscriminate derision? Neither.
- Choosing flattery over reality is a pervasive, debilitating malady.
- Mental confliction only inflicts self-deceivers and the oblivious; and no one is oblivious.
- Consensus is a yardstick only for cowards, liars, and the mistaken.
- Consensus governs only cowards, liars, and the mistaken.
- Quick to anger, slow to think - this is a bad, bad thing!
- Bad arguments cannot survive on strength of reason; they must rely on strength of decibels and strength of terms.
- There can be no order to excess.
- The makeshift truth is a lie.
- The wise person's argument is like a game of catch; the fool seeks a tennis match.
- "Nah - I won't cast my pearls before this swine" - A Pompous Prick
- To die a worthwhile death is a greatest honor - second only to living an honorable life.
- If the goal is worthwhile, the difficulty of the challenge should not cause me concern; if the goal is worthless, the ease there is in attaining it should not tempt me.
- Unabridged candor is the sign of a wholly confident person.
- Physical attraction is great! Love is even better! And yet, neither of the two ensures compatibility.
- Disease and health are matters, entirely, of circulation.
- Nothing brings more misery than deception; no deception is more potent than self-deception.
- Ode to cynics: All the self-righteous wisecracks you can muster about fools will avail you no contentment when someone you care about turns to foolishness. Moreover, by then you will seek to understand and help, not just label and exclude. (If you were not rather foolish yourself you would, even now, prefer the former mindset to the latter.) If you wait for your capricious subjectivity to coerce your concern, you just may find that your years of hardened cynicism have rendered you unable to adopt an empathetic, helpful frame of mind.
- Do you believe in yourself? If not, you well should not, and you have, no doubt, many good reasons to not. I did not believe in me, for the longest time - not until I deserved it. (Flattery made it an uphill climb.)
- Intelligent people consider criticism as advice. Bright minds appreciate unsolicited advice.
- To do effectively, you should be happier than you would be if you were not doing.
- Improvement is exactly proportional to commitment.
- Bluntness purposed wisely is a virtue; inconsiderate bluntness is a vice.
- Candor can require context: candor without context can easily be deceit.
- Artful communicators are so concise yet poignant, so subtle yet profound, that, at times, we wonder whether their brilliance was accidental!
- Thinking about it is wiser than worrying about it; changing it is wiser than complaining about it.
- There is reality. Therefore, how right you "feel" can be entirely irrelevant.
- Better to not decry the plan, if you have no alternative.
- Presenting one's case candidly and working openly is proper to a wise person; cunningly extracting tidbits of information to work in secrecy is proper to a base fool.
- If not now, then when, you ask? (1) Later, when I am better prepared (2) Never.
- None despise another without first despising self.
- We admire, as much as anything else, a person showing fortitude in adversity.
- Wealth, employed improperly, creates nothing more than greater and greater convenience. Hence, unprincipled rich people are disposed to becoming lazy more quickly.
- If you fall, fail and no one is around, are you ashamed? In other words: Is it only the fickle, precarious perspective of others that determines your self-worth?
- One person never tries and never fails. Another person tries and succeeds. Yet another tries, fails, learns - tries again, and succeeds. And another tries, fails, learns - tries again, fails again, learns again, tries again and succeeds. The last person tries, fails, learns, tries again, fails again, learns, tries etc. - and dies trying: of these four, who is the least alive?
- It may or may not. And if it does kill you, would you complain?
- Is another's offensiveness simply your own shame?
- For wrongs, there is infection, eradication and re-infection. There is no remission.
- When an earnest inventor couples absolute expectation, the thing happens.
- For the sport of conversation, we have very few excellent pitchers, and even fewer excellent catchers; and they are usually one and the same.
- For the art of conversation, we have very few thoughtful painters, and even fewer receptive canvases; and they are usually one and the same.
- "Porn degrades women" is both obvious and misleading.
- Intuition brings forward that bit of thought that was on the tip of my tongue - words that became more and more slippery, as I grasped for them.
- No one truly lives, without some fear of dying.
- In between porn and feminism, between levi's and "off-brands", between steroids and misogyny - there is the solution.
- Sometimes you perceive continuity and are mistaken. Other times, you perceive change and are mistaken.
- Immoral inheritance cannever afford the satisfaction of overcoming.
- The late person can, at times, be more troubled at the lateness than is the waiting person.
- Emotions are precarious, volatile.
- Mind think not only through contraction (intentional thought), but also via flexion (unintentional, intuitive thought).
- What use is a healthy mind if the body is corrupt?
- A healthy body serves no good use to a person's corrupted mind.
- A fool will argue against existing policy, not suggesting another, better idea, but by stating ill feelings about the idea that they do not like; they have no real argument - they do not have a leg to kick with.
- Decidedly, childhood is not the only time of life wherein people act childishly.
- The most damaging things parents can do to a child: 1) Honor a dishonorable marriage 2) Divorce 3) Pit sibling against sibling 4) Pit child against parent in life
- The wise appreciate caring help, however it stings. Fools prefer painless, reassuring flattery.
- So very much time spent needlessly needing; thoughtlessly thinking; pointlessly pointing; restlessly dreaming; humbly gloating
- When fools see injustice, they often hold their tongues - plotting how they might direct the injustice to work in their favor.
- Social-engineering joy-rides are intellectual-fascism and doomed to failure.
- We are, indeed, what we eat. All around me, I see cannibals of idiocy: people feasting on the decrepit and feeble minds of the greatest fools from then and now.
- Good music can be enjoyed naturally. Bad music must be willfully.
- When I see someone trying to lord knowledge over another, I see it for what it is: A pitiful farce - owed, entirely, to thorough insecurity and ignorant self-importance.
- The wise lead their life. Fools are drugged and dragged
- Deception is not a quick fix - it is immediate decadence.
- No weakness is more deplorable than, in seeking to avoid conflict, excusing someone of an unjust thing .
- Many well-meaning people are wrong and spreading lies.
- Unprincipled people are far from truth.
- Whether consciously or not, everyone hates flattery.
- Flattery cripples.
- Deception must birth hypocrisy.
- People ought to base their judgments on the contents, not the packaging. And that goes especially for people who insist on calling cantankerous old people "sweet", calling hateful fat people "nice", and calling embittered, cynical women "kind-hearted" because the women happen to be physically ugly.
- Unsolicited advice is highly resisted, often resented. You should still offer it.
- Barricade your mind with defensive measures and you will inevitably contrive circumstance which speak of a need for defense. Still, this circumstances are only the echo of your perspective.
- Every person's face has a language which tells a story. The face of an individual gives a detailed account of who the person is and what manner of thoughts he or she routinely thinks. As for the pretender who thoroughly encrypts and distorts the face's language with make-up: The surest superficial way to judge that person is by noting posture, the tones of the voice, and the fact that they routinely hide what they actually look like.
- Besides the social chameleon itself, none benefit by its constant inconstancy.
- The purpose of cosmetic make-up is to teach girls to lie, to aggrandize, to misrepresent; and if you see who she truly is, then the girl is said to be failing, and the make-up is said to not be doing its job.
- Most divorced parents give their children, above all, a sordid lesson in convenience.
- Vulgarity expresses feelings with minimal thought.
- Do not mince meanings, do not digress - no deception is goodness.
- Self-deception is the conscious cause of laziness.
- Fear many people; fear often, fear severely - that is okay. However, defer no good thing for the sate of hiding from fear - Always defer cowardice for honesty.
- In a short-term perspective, humility seldom seems preferable to expedience.
- If we all had a clear understanding of truth, if we were all just competing for the prize of 'most elaborately spoken or written', I should condone these relentless barrages of poetry. However, for many people, concepts are difficult enough to grasp, even when stated with the utmost lucidity. So to all you fledgling poets, I say stop necessarily encumbering your concepts with petty rhymes, poor rhythm - you self-indulgent trappings. The focus ought to be explaining the concept, not fluffing its delivery.
- Do not live your tomorrow exactly as you lived today; you have already lived today!
- More things available means, necessarily, more distractions can occur: Technology affords us so much that is unprecedented - inarguably, the average person has more available to him or her now than would be at any other time in history. Therefore, now, more than ever before, there is a need to budget our attention. We must deliberately ignore many things if we are to be successful, happy and - particularly - calm. Sadly though, on the other hand, many people list among their first wave of things to ignore patience, empathy, politeness, dignity (their own and other people's), and many other qualities and behaviors that are the very foundations of civility and indeed humanity. This ought not to be. No one should act this way.
- Wasting Time, Wasting Life: Succeeding at and failing at things that are not of your concern, things wherein success and failure are of equal truth: Namely, none. All the while, your just concerns, things whereupon your time should be spent, that which you can properly, positively affect - these gather dust.
- Only a fool is offended at the questioning of his or her intelligence. It is not the wise, but the foolish who wish for wisdom to 'go without saying'.
- Not improving is to be dying.
- In a world of uncertainty, the fearful, the weak defer reality for what they deem less threatening.
- Unfortunately, many people choose priorities that favor confusion, pain and death.
- The Question: People are bound to degrade me; am I better off just degrading myself, beating them to the punch - self-deprecation is a good measure of defense right? The Answer is no.
- Exalting those spiritually dead, morally disfigured is a poor, poor choice.
- Many people, principally speaking, eat cold pizza for breakfast - they adapt their preferences to fit their laziness.
- If you are unreliable then, eventually, the concern others have for you numbs.
- It is self-deception, alone, that impedes perfect memory.
- If ever I denounce someone as vindictive, I act vindictively...also hypocritically.
- The amount of deceptive makeup someone wears is exactly proportional to that person's self-abhorrence.
- Two types of people love books: (1) The type that love to learn (2) The type that love to be reaffirmed -in ever more clever phraseology- the things they already think they know.
- Talking in circles is the exact opposite of debate.
- Contemporary Cyborgs: Part-human/Part-cosmetic paint.
- A rule of thumb: If, in a leisurely environment, you express more than two clearly confrontational viewpoints, you are ranting - nothing more.
- You base your caustic judgments not on accurate observations; your tongue only serves to demonstrate your own degeneration.
- Which is the most volatile disposition? The pacifist's.
- Attributing the features (physical characteristics) of 'the royal family' to 'inbreeding' is incorrect. Their weirdness comes from generations of convenience, of quasi-infallibility. No challenges = No development.
- If I had a great regret, it'd be that I've spent so much time regretting - thankfully I have none.
- If the point of debating was to be the most dramatically emphatic, while ignoring obvious contradictions, and abstaining from common sense, well then... please, suffice it to say that this is not the point of debating.
- Unbridled indulgence in physical pleasure creates a debt that must be met with payment of physical pain: Nature's way of warning us against letting the body overrun the mind.
- I see insecure people vainly seeking to seem more confident; they dedicate much of their time to humiliating/ alienating other people, to 'lowering the bar' of self esteem - they would settle for appearing confident 'by comparison'.
- Some friendships are based on mutual dislikes; these go nowhere.
- To a point, other people's opinion of you is your business - don't be an arrogant idiot!
- To withhold from others the respect and patience you expect of them is to swim against the current.
- The proud boast even their miseries.
- Disproportionate leisure is intrinsically unfulfilling, indeed dissatisfying.
- The philosophy of determinism is the philosophy of justifying responsibility cop-outs.
- Determinism is a whip of unified intention; I hope I fall off before it cracks.
- When unconcerned with application, the more a thinker delves, the more he or she is autistic to real life.
- It is one thing to enjoy hearing yourself talk; it is another, far baser thing, to disdain correction; another thing, baser still - mangling your perspective to ensure yourself an agreeing audience.
- They have no honor - those only willing to live for their beliefs; they are hopelessly shortsighted - those so quick to die so we'll believe.
- For hedonists, no truth outshines persuasiveness, and no fault more despised than lacking thereof.
- Value gestures and symbols above actuality, and you're asking for trouble.
- Dead minds everywhere - these sorry souls view death as a final scapegoat.
- The most morally unsound philosophies are those that compel their adherers to take up instructing before attaining an adequate understanding of its principles.
- Place your aim for life far above prolonging life, to enriching it. Life is meaningless without understanding, friendship, high spirits. If living comes between these and any wise person, remember the person's aim - it is why they are dead.
- Good works can often acquire hatred as easily as can bad works. Therefore, be on your guard - mindfully deny any temptation to forgo differentiation between good and bad.
- To be great and remarkable, always endeavor in every word and in every action to be great and remarkable.
- Happiness prefers the youthful, whose minds are less clouded, and goals more spirited.
- Speak less; say more.
- Act happily and you will be happy.
- To do, to get, to be anything of truly good worth requires of you the following three commitments: 1. Commitment to Sacrificing work more favorable for work more earnest, (when the two types are at odds) 2. Commitment to Prioritizing progression over leisure (but always incorporate leisure) 3. Commitment to cheerfulness!
- Focus on Priorities: Seize opportunity, but not 'any' opportunity.
- Forget merely admiring; be inspired!
- Confrontation and Debate strongly facilitate learning: There is no 'strong-silent' type - There are only two types: (1) Strong (2) Silent
- Knowledge creates the truest context - Knowledge must never defer to preference. Preference is born of convenience; convenience bends to laziness.
- You are smarter and healthier and, indeed happier when your habits cause your body to wind down at night and be restless in the morning.
- Face facts, yet keep faith: Clarity does not benefit the demolished spirit - knowledge is useless without heart.
- Be kind, or have no security in adversity.
- Clear, accurate calculation prevails; Self-deception destroys.
- Welcome success or failure; adjust your success to be greater and your failure to be success.
- To the peaceful ear, the approaching and passing of any of the day's traffics is no different from the relaxing ebb and flow of a tide: Above all, Perspective.
- Imagine dying with regrets... - Which are they?
- Disclose yourself fully: Find someone to completely trust, and tell that person all the things that you have sworn to yourself you would never discuss with anyone - Even if is simply yourself.
- Think: Is it worth my time?
- If you are promised the world, or threatened that yours will be destroyed, two things, above all, need to be clear in your mind: 1) Anything rightfully yours is impossible to take from you. 2) What is not rightfully yours, you can never own: Everything a fool fancies is never owned, only borrowed - and yet clung to so tightly!
- Avoid the temptation of answering any question posed purely for the sake of flaunting bravado. Such are simply passive-aggressive statements - no periods, only endless commas.
- How to win true friends: Greet, compliment, encourage, listen and appreciate.
- Talk out-loud to yourself: Take note - it is impossible to jointly listen and speak -, remember what you have learned, and improve your dealings with others.
- Mind your manner of selecting mentors.
- Be glad when others succeed.
- No one can offend you without your consent - Eleanor Roosevelt.
- See that you consent to being offended as often as is necessary.
- One leaves me inquiring; one leaves me guessing - One teacher inspiring; one teacher impressing.
- Keep learning, you just might discover how stupid you are, how stupid you have been - Then your life begins.
- Do not let anyone waste your time, yourself included.
- Understand how a person stands to gain - familiarize yourself as to why and how they would want to deceive you.
- Define your problems, give them measurable qualities - do not leave them vague.
- The best words come from those who intend to improve upon silence.
- "The sad of the Earth must borrow their mirth, but have troubles enough of their own." - Ella Wilcox ... Be an exceptional person: Help others be happy!
- Know when to give up on befriending someone.
- Take heart, but mind your mind and mouth.
- If you must choose between the two - expedience or accuracy -, choose accuracy.
- Happy people smile and do not avoid the sun.
- Do not let anyone demean you, yourself included.
- Please have the courage and civility to reply to rudeness and politeness you receive, with words to the affect of "and the same to you." --Honor all sides of the Golden Rule!--
- Be seen, not only heard: People trust their eyes more than their ears.
- Notice: Animals do not know words, they focus completely on the qualities of our tones - people are little different.
- For the wise, contexts change, however, principles do not.
- Never try to defeat your enemy, win them to your side - gain a friend.
- No one, no one, is a hapless pawn: Try as I might, I could not, for any substantial amount of time, bend hearts to my will. For success, I have learned to appeal to others on a level more intimate than fight, more patient than flight, and more honest than flattery.
- Getting what you want: Maybe you will happen upon it; maybe you must seek it out - be prepared for each, receptive to either.
- The only success that will bring you happiness is success at something that you honestly believe is good.
- Establish your principles on efficiency and cheerfulness - they ought to be of such quality that, when compromised, your time is wasted and you are unhappy. Good principles appeal to your mind and to your gut.
- Thinking requires strict perseverance; imparting requires humbled patience.
- We ought not to dichotomize everything; wisdom and foolishness, however, we indeed should dichotomously differentiate.
- Trust your friends with a whole heart - you will rarely be let down. Moreover, if ever someone deals with you wrongly, you will have built up so much virtuous, high-spirited momentum that you will steamroll right through the disappointment ... Onward to greater goods!
- Though the whole world will turn upside-down again and again, your task remains the same: Remain upright.
- Keep the goal always in mind, while being open to the possibility of alternate means of achieving it.
- For energy recovery and for leisure, focus your mind on what is good. For effective improvement, focus your mind on problems.
- People can be wrong and bad unintentionally; focus on results, not intentions.
- Ask yourself of the person, "Is this weakling spiritually crushed, tortured into submission through over-exposure to falsehoods and depravity? - or is this coward a willing accomplice, a welcoming host of foolishness and weakness?" Ascertain more than their obvious pain and your obvious disdain - find the root; find the seed.
- You will surmount all bombardments of falsehood, whether powerfully panicked or painstakingly pesky, if, in your mind, you provoke and develop thought often, if you think with plenty of purpose.
- Honorable actions are always straightforward, never vague.
- Spend more time judging yourself than judging others; also, judge yourself more strictly.
- Ice in your veins, but not in your heart - compassionate stone is the finest of arts.
- We each ought to read Longfellow's "St. Augustine's ladder" at least once in life ... and Kipling's "If".
- To be happy: Do what happy people do. Moreover, do not worry - after just a little while, you will not feel awkward, out of place, you will forget it was just an act!
- Everyone involved is better off, if you befriend rather than befuddle.
- Our expressions - verbal and otherwise - serve us best when they are both soothingly smooth, and yet poignantly crisp. Furthermore, let your truth be sharp and your tone blunt.
- There is, within any given series of events that has been set in motion to secure a specified 'goal', a special point, a point wherein "everything that can be done, has been done". This point, let's call it a practicality-interregnum. At this point, any more labor (physically or mentally) given to secure the end is only wasted. Mind the practicality-interregnum.
- Be absolutely intolerant of self-deprecation - whether used by others, or yourself.
- To bid earnest concern while staying good-cheer: No goal there is better than this while we're here.
- All I do could amount to mistakes, and yet I'd never prefer a life of dodging blame - an immoral sate.
- If I could have that all my challenges would solve in the blink of an eye, I would. So many catastrophes from those without a mind to get better - aimlessly planning solutions, no space allotted for improvement.
- For lasting satisfaction, keep your mind not on what the world holds for you, but on what you bring to it.
- Each moment: Happiness or Not - you choose.
- If the Queen of England were a Victim-Feminist, she'd be knighting coat hangers for their fine work of 'providing so many women with a choice'.
- Women, generally, have now become entirely cloyed by social deference.
- If women were as bent on happily pleasing men as men are on pleasing women, no man would need the fantasy which pornography provides - A women gladly pleasing a man.
- George Eliot wrote 'his' "Choir", which shatters presumptions of fairness and shows proof of pervasive inequality, more so than these modern Victim-Feminists - no matter how many children they murder for the sake of equilibrium.
- The worst insult you can attribute to a person is their being impervious to criticism - So many fools unquestioningly swallow the doctrine of Victim-Feminism's infallibility... And the Victim-Feminists are too stupid to be offended!
- No matter how many children are murdered, feminists are not providing equality - they are sanctioning murder. Victim-Feminists have proved no point; I am, yet, unconvinced.
- Pro-Choice: Anti-responsibility.
- Feminism: Socio-psychological hedonism.
- With feminists in charge, no one is safe.
- With feminists in charge, no one thinks.
- If Men ever had even a small percentage over Women, the rights Women now have over men -social rights-, I would believe that Women were once as mistreated, as a group, as Feminists claim; because most Women now are entirely corrupted by social deference - "She thinks of Men only as a Means to Her ends".
- Watch the movie "Unfaithful" and you'll see what I mean: What a joke, and how obvious - the portrayal: how meticulously a Woman can "fall into the arms of another Man"!
- A big win for Victim-Feminism: Women are starting to 'rage against the machine'... by hyphenating their last names after marriage.
- It would not be necessary for government to promote fatherhood, if only government would stop destroying it. - Stephen Baskerville
- It's not simply that fools are generally weak minded and the wise, strong-minded - rather, fools are often very strong-minded also...but only about foolish things.
- Friends are the ones you deal with because you want to, not because you must.
- For most people, half their trouble is that they don't listen to truth; the other half is that they don't speak truth.
- There is no way around this: I"m to think the world is flat. Unless, of course, this is the single truth I"m not admonished to relinquish.
- Where can we find a single righteous person - considering that the point of life is being happy about the correct things, and fighting relentlessly against incorrectness?
- It is a sad truth that often the quality that preserves a philosophy through the ages is its satiation of the basest throes of a society, indeed the basest filth of all humanity.
- Which is easier: Following through faith, or following through certainty?
- The mind of an outstandingly creative person, by its very nature, lacks certain qualities necessary to enjoy any socially practical dominance. Ergo, the creativity of the creative shall always be at least subletted, but usually wholly commandeered, say nationalized, by seditious, ambitious minds.
- Shakespeare made it his life's work: Making the worse appear the better cause. Ergo, I find him, as well, to be worthy of a good cudgeling.
- ...And the difference between Plato's "Republic" and Hitler's "Aryan Nation" is what?
- Far off, in recessed perfection, there may be an exception, but as far as I know, the following holds: All knowledge is but fragmentary, until applied to a context.
- A very difficult thing to demystify is the misconception of how to judge wisdom.
- In my day, men are more prodded than women to excel, while women, more often than men, are relegated to atrophying.
- In my day, insulting a woman is much more serious than is insulting a man.
- In my day, criticizing a man is much more acceptable than is criticizing a woman.
- In my day, a woman receiving flattery (ingenuine appreciation) is much more likely than a man, or a women receiving genuine praise.
- In my day, women have a harder time respecting, often even recognizing, their separateness, physically and psychologically, from others.
- In my day, almost no one values collectivism past, both, its destructive qualities and its absolute necessity.
- In my day, there is a generalization that men are overly systemized - and they are derided for being thus, while in the same motion, men are blamed for all the ills that ought to be attributed to lack of systems: Discord, discontent, social chaos.
- I can take credit for not a single idea, only my phraseology.
- Willfully oblivious people - no one truly misses them.
- Tell me I may live forever, eternally, the life I have between about 4 A.M. and 8 A.M. I would gladly accept such a fate! Such is the time I am up, awake and thinking - I both understand reality and can trust that no one is lurking near me, wishing to conspire: "Decidedly, we had better devise how we might best escape what is real."
- Something both painful and amusing, but, above all, inspiring: I realize how much time I have spent convincing myself that I did not know what I knew that I knew.
- Tell me the mind has a powerful effect on disease and health. If I say, "So you're saying disease doesn't exist", remind me that minds exist.
- Moral Eyes: We each have three moral eyes, one for each moral tool. Whether each eye watches or turns blind will determine whether we win or we lose. One eye for our moral compass; one eye for our moral thermometer; one eye for our moral thermostat: Each eye keeps watch over its own; all are closed, when we blink but one. The eye for the compass, we all must share; of the two others, we have each our own pair.
- Face-to-face, with ease, I may contradict gangs-worth of fools regarding principles; but when it comes to me driving the speed-limit and causing a back-flow of cars behind me, I feel all but compelled to break the law (accelerate) to save myself the trouble of "vehicularly-confronting" so many lawlessly-rushed fools.
- Whose violence is more justified: (1) The attacker (2) The defender? Well, it depends: What is the attacker attacking? What is the defender defending?
- To dream, we must remember. - Debra Lynn Hills
- Christmas-time ought not to be a time when we all over-work to over-spend on things no one needs - It ought to be a week-or-so of Sundays.
- When leaders lead with wholly self-serving deceptiveness, it guarantees the engulfment of faithful subordinates by animalistic compulsion.
- Only amidst the widespread, thoroughly ridiculous deception within our society can statements about even the most obvious truths can make me seem like a ponderous genius. Moreover, only in the eyes of those who still want understanding - people not yet wholly swallowed by the abyss of delusion.
- Nearly always, the trait of another that offends is simply the trait of our own that shames our self-perception: At the price delusion, many deny this truth.
- No, Hindsight is NOT "always 20/20" - but often a most murky, meticulously distorted sight.
- Associating with someone who scoffs the golden rule is, indeed, a loathsome ordeal.
- My favorite days are a miniature year - having in them a hinting taste of each season.
- Change is not necessarily good; only the change that improves is good.
- Familiarity breeds comfort breeds safety breeds honesty breeds reality breeds happiness.
- It is not my place to convince anyone of anything; I am only obligated to make available to others what knowledge I have.
- A consolation regarding lazy minds: They are not self-sustaining. Therefore, the real enemy: Self-deception, fear, and flattery.
- Women - You are free to pick either side (not both): (1) I am a person (2) I am an ornament.
- Smokers are, inarguably, the easiest of anyone to seduce; sexually yes - more importantly, they are the most willing enlistees in a fools false, corrupt causes - why? Well, name a type of person more venal and compulsive - Most smokers are psychotic, functionally speaking.
- Two slights make aright, if each is due.
- All in a mad rush, yes - yet I am disinclined to believe that the direction is considered, much less that the directive is known.
- I understand rooting for the "under-dog" and the "little person". What I do not understand is rooting for the stupid dog and the foolish person. Let us rethink our colloquial synonyms.
- There are two kinds of people: (1) Those who value their time (2) Those that do not.
- Narcissism and Dishonesty are dangerous precedents.
- Ideas may be the fuzzy part; you may need to be the Velcro part - grip them!
- Add the letter "y" to any word and you make the word cuter.
- Misplacing love is wrong; placing disdain correctly is right.
- Act as you always have and people will, with little variance, respond to you as before.
- To get what you have never gotten, you will have to do what you have never done.
- Understanding what we find laughable is the surest way to understand our heart.
- Receiving Death for acting honorably is a deal, receiving life along with dishonor is highway robbery.
- If what is familiar bores you, you are not familiar enough with it.
- Flattery brings a S.A.D. smile: Smile of Absolute Deception.
- There are two kinds of people: (1) Those more likely to tell you what you want to hear. (2) Those more likely to tell you what you need to hear.
- Even at your slyest moments, you can never accomplish the impossible: Evading True Responsibility.
- Whether you think you can or think you cannot, you are going to be right.
- The wise appreciate caring help, however it stings; fools prefer painless, reassuring flattery.
- My happiness and the world's happiness inescapably coincide; misery is no different.
- Some say that as one gets closer to "dying", the truth in life is increasingly learned! This is not true! It is, "as a person gets closer to "death" that they begin to know life". Accepting something brings you closer to it. Death is inevitable; dying is not.
- Ugly choices precede an ugly countenance.
- Truth is accurate, no matter how ruthlessly unflattering.
- There is nothing exceedingly virtuous about despising superfluous trappings, no matter how ornately the things have been adorned.
- It is wrongly perceived an expected quality, and yet nothing intrigues and entrances people more than the person who has the quality of being adamantly committed.
- What is truly there, anywhere - the mind can go there.
- You will find no honor among the thieves, only "meat and wine" disease.
- None can enjoy true loyalty with the unprincipled person - eventually one friend's greatest opportunity will be the other friend's victimization.
- You can stand behind good choices; bad ones you can only stand under.
- Confrontation and Debate strongly facilitate learning. There is no "strong-silent" type - There are only two types: (1)The Strong (2) The Silent
- Compliments though soothing, are usually run-off; Insults embed in our psyches.
- Wise people are not hard to come by; they are hard to tolerate, hard to endure - often, they will say the very thing we have been choosing not to hear.
- Our Prayers: We can "submit to them"; we do not "submit them". Heavenly Expectations: We do not demand, we inquire.
- The mind heavily influences all diseases - allergies, cancers etc. - as well as health!
- We all have the grace of God - There, but for understanding and considerateness, go I.
- To be faithful to "truths" (as opposed to truth) exhibits mindfulness of the subjective nature of the world in which we now live. There is, ultimately, Truth - but it is manifest in many ways - many ways, but not "different" ways. "There are many different truths" differs from saying "truth is where you find it".
- Life can be hard; however, that is no excuse.
- The more profound the thought: the more at liberty the thinker.
- Only the seeker finds it.
- Smile and you will immediately feel happier!
- When reading, have a dictionary handy.
- If all else fails, the truth to hone, shed these crowds; stand alone.
- Always be helpful = Always have help.
- To succeed, to accomplish, to do great things means making friends of some and combatants of others: Whose acceptance do you want? Whose acceptance tells you, "Your aim is slipping?"
- ...Then along came Dr. Atkins - milking the fat, the lazy - flattering: Telling those who make poor food choices, and get fat because of it, exactly what they most want to hear: "No you're not eating poorly enough!"
- Only the most unfortunate fool believes that lies ensure safety more than do truths.
- Go ahead and laugh at the obviousness of the following: "If we spend our time on things that are useless, we will have less time to spend on useful things". This principle is laughably simple, and largely ignored.
- Common fools: Idleness mongers - People who champion no causes. Kingly fools: Champion causes that they do not understand. Godly fools: Champion causes with which they disagree.
- Amidst rebuke, fools repeat the mantra: Judging by their judging me, they surely think improperly.
- The minds of Fools and cowards forever shape beliefs based on convenience.
- The fool is quick to chalk regrettable exchanges up to another's viciousness; the wise are long-sufferingly considerate and eager to, if honesty permits, chalk hurtful outcomes up to an unintentional miscommunication followed by a prideful stubbornness to correct the mistake. The wise are more likely to see someone who is weak as weak; the fool makes no differentiation between weakness and meanness.
- Fools believe that time is well spent flattering each other into partnerships of misrepresentation - "Let's combine our self-serving immorality; our misdeeds will go unstated, unbalanced"...But what about retribution by nature? No wise person doubts that order (karma if you like) exists in our world.
- Only a fool believes people are obligated to accept apologies.
- Even the most notoriously foolish person is not any bit a fool, once committed to truth - foolishness leaves no scars.
- Many people want for understanding, yet few want it.
- A simple test to figure out what kind of person someone is: Say, "you're wrong": A wise person will respond, "Why?/ How do you figure?/ What makes you say that? Etc..."; A foolish person will respond, "Don't tell me how to live/ who are you to say what's right and wrong/ I don't believe in right and wrong/ Let he who is guiltless cast stones etc..."
- Nothing intrigues the spoon-fed charlatan quite like feigning the life of the rustic.
- A fool will believe that the level of his or her commitment, worse still - the validity of his or her claims, is properly gauged by how ferociously he or she barks assertions.
- The lowest fool is the hypocrite.
- You'll find four fickle fools for four given moments: Constrict, Evade, Degrade, and Disown-it.
- If given enough time to waste, the fool can irrationally rationalize anything.
- It's not simply that fools are generally weak minded and the wise, strong-minded - rather, fools are often very strong-minded also...but only about foolish things.
- In the midst of that fool's impending reflection, guard yourself!
- I thought I knew all; alas, self-aggrandizement is not enough.
- Humility is a virtue. Timidity is a vice: The right choice, the wrong reason, at best.
- Self-deceivers are unequalled in their destructiveness. They become psychological hypochondriacs, self-satisfyingly harsh-minded, and, eventually, hyperventilate on concepts that are to truth what helium is to air. How mentally nasal they become.
- Convenience (our preference) rots our heart and our soul when it robs Justice (Fairness's preference).
- You can stand behind good choices; bad ones you can only stand under.
- Contest only by law, never contest by coercion; law is proper to men, coercion, to beasts. If you rely on coercion, you are the beast, and the problem.
- Choices ought to be purposeful: Do something or nothing, not both.
- The fool is nearly always frantic and inefficient, nearly always resentful of the calmness and efficiency of the wise, and always feels successful (whether sub-consciously, secretly, or overtly) when able to agitate others into franticness.
- Do not assume that 'emphatic words' guard 'powerful ideas' - often, strong speech belies weak thoughts.
- Facilitate a hypocrite and, soon enough, you will be the scapegoat: Live by the lie, Die by the lie...
- The cynical mind works as a catalyst and a magnet for all that is bad in the world.
- Clear, accurate calculation prevails. Self-deception destroys.