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Steyning's Stirring Quotes |
The pathetic innocence of arrogance
Obsessions are doomed
Murder is Much Overrated
All the knowingly inferior can do is angrily claim superiority State lies, or the root of all evil
The rise of the total misfit who shouldn't be allowed to walk the streets, upheld by the credulous confusing psychotic behavior with safety and strength
Man is the only animal to get infected by blind greed and ambition, the sometimes deadly virus of the human intellect
Unprovoked hatred is nothing but a crutch
Real Power Rests In Lightness (on which it effortlessly thrives)
For some unfortunates life's a subway to nowhere, with all too often ill-lit stops
It’s not dying swans most mourn, it’s angels - wings and all- not standing behind a deathbed... but lying inside one
The Narcissist is a Positive Thinker on Steroids
Like Man The Melon Progresses From Within
Russia, or where it is manly to show immense anger
The Problem is that Fatalism works
A malign narcissist always feels maligned
When lying forms part of a truth, you call it strategy
No real freedom without honesty
A self-confined intellect is man's greatest tragedy, for it implies the probable betrayal of one
Humanity will die of its own insanity, at the very most remaining as a two-legged rabbit even when wearing that hat it found
Honor and Horror follow each other too closely
Did God create insanity, or did insanity create God?
As we are all biodegradable I also am best before expiry date
SOME EPIPHANIES ARE LETHAL
Atomic Clocks Are Us
To save lives religions, like sex, should be practiced between four walls, at home, doors locked
hope is no diamond
Sometimes laughter is a form of crying
Those who fear love, love to instill fear
I assume my existence, but does He? Nostalgia is nearly always inaccurate, irrational and completely pathetic
Gullibility is the fast food of thought
Grotesque Societies Protect Their Intellectual Poverty
Delusion is a dangerous drug
Killing in His name proves He doesn't exist
NO BRAINS, NO HUMILITY
Society and Government should be like a brassiere, strapless if possible and occasionally even gently removed
Terror Tends To Start At Home
Convictions are not only cocoons but also goons, there to preserve and protect and therefore no bastions of wit and wisdom
In civilized society you defeat a political rival and shake his hand, in primitive society you destroy him
Nihilism is a form of Arrogance, not Angst: by rejecting all purpose and value the nihilist places himself above all and everything
Fascism is a human form of rabies
Liars are loud because of their obvious need to overwhelm...
The only force stronger than belief itself is the compulsion to make one up at all cost. After all, what's life without a Teddy Bear...
It is infinitely sadder not to recognize than it is not to be recognized
CODES: Some dress to advertise the shape they're in, for others it's the direct cause of the shape they're in
Gods don't murder much; people do
Relevance can be highly irrelevant
Puritanical = Tyrannical
Snobbism is not only a form of arrogance, it is a form of ignorance
Anger should come from pain, not because it's fashionable
Nationalism is orchestrated anger, confronting everything and everyone except itself
Stream of conscienceness doesn't get to the point, because too often there isn't one
Abstinence is a terrible vice
Exploiting and manipulating unrelated frustration is the favorite strategy for total power grabs
Whereas Power corrupts, Celebrity perverts and distorts
If purpose is time related, then uselessness is timeless
Courage = Relevance
Religion is seriously territorial
When the nation itself is nextdoor's psychopath...
We Don't Ask All The Questions
A life unexamined is a life not lived
Tradition = Structure
Those who indulge in extreme self-pity are a danger to the world
Irrational hatred is the drug that always kills twice, first your supposed enemy and then you!
In the right light, everything is fucking nonsense
I juxtapose to expose or sometimes to re-enforce
Nationalism is crypto-totalitarianism
Stimulate = Agitate
Lying = Stealing
Knowledge comes easy, wisdom is dearer
Decrees are the source of tomorrow's rebellions
Playfulness = Freedom
Anti-semitism is never the answer, anti-cynicism is
TRIBALIZE = TRIVIALIZE
Vacant Eyes, Vacant Lives
Those who forcefully cling to the past always claim they're fighting for the future
There's nothing sadder than an empty theatre, except for that desperately hurting child outside
Ignorance is not bliss
Danger is real Meaning
It seems that not Communism but Facebook & Twitter represent the hollow end-victory of the proletariat
It takes 1 robot to replace 30 workers. It takes 30 workers to build and service 1 robot. It's not the machines that are getting smarter, it's the workers.
Multi-moral = Amoral
We're all insignificant, but some of us are more insignificant than others
We are the compost of the cosmos and therefore perhaps... not so useless afterall
Snobbery is snottery
U.S. segregation was the prohibition of human decency
Life everywhere in the cosmos is but a flame, popping up and burning bright then disappearing into waiting night
Moral equality is what the world needs most
By implication absolute rulers are absolute murderers
SATIRE IS NO JOKE
PHILOSOPHY IS ONANISM
Governing isn't about quality, it's about numbers
Populism occurs when the positioned placate the uninformed to keep them ignorant
Time and again history proves that even if successful those who provoke a rebellion are not qualified to lead a new nation; they end up destroying it by their ignorance
To some life is a dildo
If we are the opposite of nothingness, we should prove we merit it every single day
If ultimately morality is intelligence based, then amorality is nothing but dark stupidity
Knowledge has to be managed and adjusted constantly as the world turns
Given all that violent cosmic chaos, a peaceful totally motionless windstill morning on a comfortably sunny beach is in itself the miracle, only then.... us!
Morally deranged, equals mentally deranged
TO LOVE IS TO FOCUS
Life loves life far more than it loves us, and why it is such a cruel lover
DOGMA IS MORE THAN ORDER; IT IS AN EMBELLISHED FORM OF COWARDICE
(Dogma is the last refuge of the coward)
It's not life which is absurd, but death
THE MORE I KNOW THE MORE I REALISE HOW LITTLE THIS IS, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS LIFE INSIDE THE BELL CURVE
WE'RE ALL IMMATURE EVERYTHING IS AN OVERREACTION
When charlatans speak, idiots will listen. And idiocy is immensely popular, everywhere
Moral superiority is the immediate claim of the shameless
He who constantly invokes the enemy, most likely is the enemy
LIFE SUGGESTS ONLY THE POSSIBILITY OF MEANING
FOUCAULT IS BRAZILIAN TOTAL FOOTBALL WITHOUT GOALS OR SIDELINES
IN THE END LIFE ISN'T ABOUT ABSTRACT MEANING, IT'S ABOUT CREATING ONE'S OWN PURPOSE
Belief is Constructed Meaning, an Attempt to Rationalize the Irrational
Purpose and a sense of accomplishment is all the meaning we need
Making a primitive understand he is primitive is, by definition, an impossibility
Show me a nation steeped in unexamined tradition, and I show you a divided and impoverished land
FAITH IS JUNKFOOD
Not succeeding does not mean failure
A Scholar or Scientist knows an awful lot about relatively little, an Intellectual knows very little about an awful lot
EVERYTHING IS OVERWRITTEN
Reasoning also is a gift from God. Don't let it scare you!
The true measure of a nation lies in the amount its officials are allowed to steal and in the way it treats its weak
WORSHIP IS BEGGING
A Nation of Flaw and Order
Fate is a valiant but fragile friend we must understand and help, not condemn out of hand
To be happy is to be free of all fear, which has nothing to do with being fearless
Formulated by and for small men, ideologies should be replaced as often as dirty linen
Life is a trip, not a trap
FATALISM IS DEFEATISM
Some have deep feelings, others strong convictions, with one having little to do with the other (some loving humanity, but never the poor sod nextdoor)
Luck also courts the Evil and the Incompetent
Nec Plus Ultra has nothing to do with giraffes
Wasting Beauty Is A Far Greater Tragedy Than Dying
Everything is Chance
RELIGION IS A MOSTLY MILD FORM OF INSANITY, IN SOME CASES IT IS A DISEASE
Life is just long enough to form existential delusions, but way too short to prove them dead wrong
Do not trust a man who knows no sorrow (some men are so intelligent, they even know how to cry)
He who packs a weapon to defend himself itches to use it, for feeling threatened must mean one matters, right!?
EVERYTHING IS ESCAPE
I have foresight, therefore I am
Nations and people continually needing to project supposed strength and superiority in fact suffer from an adolescent sense of inferiority. They're dangerous not for what is in their hands, but for what is in their head.
The European and U.S. financial crisis have amply demonstrated, that everything is a Ponzi scheme
Curiosity's Death leads to our Death
Money is a nomad turned into a hermit of late
Death to Collectivity: before a nation or a people can be free, individual independence must have taken place
Money Doesn't Grow On Treaties
Under some circumstances, surviving may be too kind a notion to entertain
Ontological courage enables man to humbly assume himself. The alternatives, arrogance or exaggerated faith, lead directly to wasted lives
I am a Now-ist
I am a friend of hours
The longest river on earth is the Amazon, the longest road the one my admirers have chosen to reach my door
ONLY ESSENTIALLY WEAK POWERS RUN HUGE MILITARY PARADES
WALLS ARE A SIGN OF WEAKNESS; NOT OF STRENGTH
Only Profound, Lasting Joy Creates Meaning
Some search for safety in calculated altruism, others in narcissism, neither one does the job
If the Priory is where the Prior resides, then the Theory is where God resides
Wankers Aweigh!
Reality is truth mutating every fraction of a second
Rococo was Baroque's Dadaism
Everything is Neo-Retro
Luck is a Whore
It is naive negotiating with people only at the table to study how best they can kill you
Knowledge is easy, connecting the facts is where wisdom comes in
And what exactly did you expect, if God Himself is an Atheist?
A real God should hate religion
Faith often gets defended using reason, as if a rational approach to the completely irrational suddenly... establishes fact
To kill is to exhibit a tragic lack of creativity
Cognition Changes Nothing
Shamelessness has no cure
Religion is a Placebo (unless a lonely God wanted someone to show off all that planetary beauty He created to, but that smart/stupid and ingrate friend got wildly out of hand!)
Endless, rapid-fire speak is for people having nothing to say or living a constant lie
When fools trust and admire each other, terrible things tend to happen to the rest of us
Only Extreme Self-Indulgence Shrinks The Universe
Life is waving an hour glass, while mired in quicksand!
We all become assassins after our last dream is taken away
Only primitives demand total conformity and homogenity, naturally with themselves on top. But for any society, Rigor itself bloody Mortis Est!
Savage and beautiful like a wild beast, the real truth can never be tamed or domesticated
Shouting "God is Great!" while killing dozens of total innocents can only mean one of two things. Either God is crazy, or you are. I think it's you...
Les fous de Dieu: Guided insanity brings criminal insanity
The salient question is not why life, but why the question
Why, the why?
Never trust a circus claiming the tallest dwarfs in town
Why do my worst fears always come through, my highest hopes never?
The Jungle is a Cosmos, the Cosmos is a Jungle
Humanity evolves favourably only when it shakes tradition
Fate has no conscience
Deforestation is a dog's worst nightmare
Everything leads to everything
Only self-confidence breeds tolerance
There can be neither freedom without responsibility, nor freedom of speech without accountability
A politician is someone speaking with great certainty about issues that are far from certain. Therefore the more authoritative he sounds, the stupider he is
It's the other way around: organized religion equates existential absurdity
He who forsakes his humanity lowers himself back into the animal kingdom, where he gets destroyed
It is immature to think that anger and rage reflect strength
By asking the right question, you show you already know the answer
The real tragedy is not hate, as much as the refusal to understand why one is hated
Including greed all human ugliness can be brought back to cowardice, thus fear.
Religious minorities in the West often clamour for the freedom to be intolerant
A strong will connected to a shallow mind invites untold troubles
I don’t mind God. I just don’t care for the company He keeps.
The XXth Century liberated Western woman, returning man to the bedroom where he belongs If one stops to think what awaits us, it is naive to live. So that joy becomes just as vital as finding food and shelter The biggest global problem as always is how to dispense the benefits of enlightenment to brutal primitives without getting eaten alive. Like dining with a cobra while teaching it etiquette and table manners, how long will this feast last? The cobra cleverly having taught itself to use knife and fork and sit up straight. In its purest form intelligence is the ability to distinguish and acknowledge the other, perhaps even wag one's tail Religion is for twelve year olds and those at one level remaining there, called split-level souls Whereas most teach to fight ignorance, others are only too happy to teach it Man is the animal able to turn anything into a religion, including soccer, nationalism and, yes, philosophy... but never humour, alas Rampant life, kills life (If we're so smart, how come there are so many of us?) It is impossible to stop people wanting to believe. It comes from deep fear and insecurity, fantasy a child's warm blanket. What's idiotic is the constant proofs they feel they must come up with, supporting that they're not mad as charged. Setting out looking for fate and claiming you found it... ain't fate! To many charity is little more than relieving themselves against a hydrant, like a small, quick, liquid spurt of conscience I have no knowledge of anything to do with myself before I entered existence, and see no possibility of acquiring any after I leave There exists no Supreme morality, or innocents wouldn't be punished with endemic suffering while useless arseholes hit it big and mass murderers die peacefully Obstinacy equals backwardness The very cruellest among us are no heroes, but the most frightened An economic depression is when 30% of citizens find they're as disposable as used diapers Rap is rabble babble Firm convictions are terrible, entertaining reasonable doubts the thing If there's nothing new under the sun, then everything becomes a depressing cliché An expert is someone who always eats tuna before going swimming, and maintains Tchaikovsky couldn't possibly have composed the 1812 Suite as he was born in 1840 Too many Third World leaders are clever enough to plunder, but not to see the pain Never Mourn Tomorrow A religious fanatic is someone who knows no beauty and has no doubts Lies enslave Super awareness still offers no escape In many cases religion is a mild form of insanity, the clergy deeply disturbed yet calculating fantasts, known to be parasitical, petty, vile and devious We're always at the mercy of the mediocre, with not enough of it coming from far too many of them A clash of civilizations signifies at least one of them isn't Anger comes from those bright enough to realize they're too dumb to compete Goodness is awareness Suspicion is a liar's child To a blind man all the world goes naked Hard work, courage and honesty lead to wealth; evasion, excuses and lies the cowardice which guarantees poverty Populism promises to pay the rent. But never yours, my friend! To hate indiscriminately is a measure of one's own tragic shortcoming Atheists don't eat converted rice Irrational fear begets irrational loathing Exaggerated national pride stems from a very dangerous shortage of individual self-esteem (Patria non totus et ubique est) The intolerant will always demand tolerance under laws they categorically reject Enforcers are compensated not to think Immortality is the domain not of the atheist, but of the non-thinker He who lives by the wind, becomes the wind: intermittently influential but on the whole dismissible The battle between good & evil boils down to the conflict between moderns and primitives Letters are pebbles but words bricks, holding up beautiful structures and even music sometimes Behind a woman's tears, lies the greatest human strength I know If God gave us life, He sure has a bewilderingly cruel way of taking it back Besides his own wicked ways, man has brought some order in the situation whereby the sole purpose of bringing him to life, seems to have been to pound the crap out of him Mars manifests life ancient fundamentalists left behind Those encouraging suicide are never home when it is their turn The human race is like water: slowly flowing to the lowest point, changing its composition to rise to the top, only to fall again Permanently emerging states are permanently led by moral and intellectual midgets It takes centuries for sense to become common Do not add to life's intimidations Life is like living with a murderer in closed quarters : it should be treated with kidgloves and utmost decorum Most prefer those the others applaud, so condemning the unsung It takes two to be decent! It is unwise for sheep to negotiate a non-aggression pact with wolves Can't ban guns? Ban bullets! Some climbers stab the back and step over the body, accuse another, steal, execute, imprison and bomb, and can do all this because, admirably apparently, sustained by their faith... History shows it's impossible for a people to prosper, if the art of compromise hasn't entered their culture Life being meaningless is not nearly as serious as leading one that is pointless Most politicians are brilliant only at getting elected I propose tripppling the minimum wage for necessary but disgusting work. Now this will reduce strife, society at last taking care of its own arse Optimism is despair in disguise Intellect is the ballpark, reason the game. Many have the facility but can or will not play A writers' dream is a watering hole with a clock that runs backwards: always time for one more, accompanied by the hope long lost friends walk in When writing I create characters I would love to have met, replacing real ones who let me down or bore me to death The Biggest Lie of all: Editors and Agents look for Originality. After submitting something out of the ordinary, they always react as if sodomized in the lane behind Granny's cottage on a Sunday morning, before services If time bends, so does truth. There's indelible gravity travelling moral space: What was true a moment ago is no longer quite so. A good writer captures this phenomenon Writing is having the courage to constantly pull the rug out from underneath oneself Graham Greene and Samuel Beckett both suffered from a form of self-induced dehydration: their lips aching, dying of thirst yet unable to drink faith's liquid words. Polite Jazz and Tropical Prose suck I feel scandalously betrayed the word Umlaut hasn't one, or that Ravel's Bolero and the word Anagram are nothing of the sort Take the dead straightest steel beam, then order several million putting them end to end to circumvent the globe. Of course they'll have made a perfect circle, proving that in the universe absolutely nothing is really straight and that even the apparently most precise item is not 100% what you think it is. Such is the truth Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I'll show you a place where misery is permanent My sister has a military-industrial complex. She doesn't cross B52s and CEOs My remarkableness goes remarkably unremarked, but may I remind you that even a broken clock... manages to be accurate twice a day Shoppers labour under the illusion they're acquiring something, when usually more is lost than obtained
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