About this user
I try to respond to comments as best I can, but if it becomes clear that those responding to me are ignorant, I will stop. I have no obligation to refute ignorance because ignorance is self-refuting.
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." --- G.K. Chesterton
"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents." --- Salvador Dali
"No one shall be forgotten who was great in this world; but everyone was great in his own way, and everyone in proportion to the greatness of what he loved. For he who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all." --- Soren Kierkegaard
"See their morals, their code, it's a bad joke." --- Heath Ledger's joker
"The world had always loved the Saint as being the nearest possible approach to the perfection of God. Christ, through some divine instinct in him, seems to have always loved the sinner as being the nearest possible approach to the perfection of man.... Of course the sinner must repent. But why? Simply because otherwise he would be unable to realise what he had done. The moment of repentance is the moment of initiation. More than that. It is the means by which one alters one's past. The Greeks thought that impossible. They often say in their gnomic aphorisms "Even the Gods cannot alter the past." Christ showed that the commonest sinner could do it. That it was the one thing he could do. Christ, had he been asked, would have said — I feel quite certain about it — that the moment the prodigal son fell on his knees and wept he really made his having wasted his substance with harlots, and then kept swine and hungered for the husks they ate, beautiful and holy incidents in his life. It is difficult for most people to grasp the idea. I dare say one has to go to prison to understand it. If so, it may be worthwhile going to prison." --- Oscar Wilde
"The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost." --- G.K. Chesterton
"You're just going to have to make up your own damn mind." --- the Oracle
"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction." --- Salvador Dali
"The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God." --- Gottfried Leibniz
"Nine times out of ten, new ideas are actually old mistakes." --- G.K. Chesterton
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." --- Salvador Dali
"Pain and suffering is your chance to kiss Christ." --- Mother Teresa
"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." --- G.K. Chesterton
"Why do we fall Bruce?" --- Bruce Wayne's father
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." --- J. R. R. Tolkien
"You met me at a very strange time in my life." --- Fight Club
"The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog." --- G.K. Chesterton
"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches." --- Andy Warhol
"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." --- G.K. Chesterton
"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid." --- Salvador Dali
"There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible." --- Gottfried Leibniz
"I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it." --- Salvador Dali
"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them." --- Salvador Dali
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." --- Salvador Dali
"God is really only another artist." --- Picasso
"I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents." --- Picasso
"Nature is the art of God" --- Dante
"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal." --- Dante
"Let my enemies devour each other." --- Salvador Dali
"When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached." --- Gottfried Leibniz
