Tuesday 28 August 2012

Theory Of Elocution

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
 ― Khalil Gibran

Monday 27 August 2012

The 5 Basic Laws Of Human Stupidity

1. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

2. The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

[More here.]

Sunday 26 August 2012

Legitimation

You are not entitled to your opinion. 
You are entitled to your informed opinion. 
No-one is entitled to be ignorant.
 ― Harlan Ellison

Saturday 25 August 2012

Triumph Of The Will

Wilful ignorance is the state and practice of ignoring any sensory input that appears to contradict one’s inner model of reality.

Friday 24 August 2012

Let Sleeping Pit Bulls Lie

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him,
or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
 — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Wednesday 22 August 2012

Vice Versa

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
 — Niccolo Machiavelli

Tuesday 21 August 2012

Hearts & Minds

The heart deceives, because it is never anything but the expression of the mind’s miscalculations.
 — Marquis de Sade

Monday 20 August 2012

Secret Service

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
 — Oscar Wilde

Sunday 19 August 2012

Evangelism

By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
 — Junius

Saturday 18 August 2012

Prescient

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
 — Oscar Wilde

Friday 17 August 2012

Religious Discourse

Intellectually Challenged Pit Bull
A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism.
If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path.
 ― Ravi Ravindra

Friday 10 August 2012

Patriot Games

The 100% American is 99% idiot.
 — George Bernard Shaw