Christ resists our unlawful selfishness. He is the only True Revolutionary.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
The End of the Road
Without true humility, we would all commit suicide if Death did not first intervene.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
A Tripping Hazard
The road of Truth is one of slowly increasing self-knowledge where we are forever in danger of being tripped up by our own vanity and ignorance.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Too High a Cost
The price that we pay for our coldness, our rudeness, and our indifference is the missed opportunity to love.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
An Infamous Proposition
Infamy: The inevitable result of the transmuting of our vanity into a violent impulse.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
A Monstrous Truth
The blasphemous ego is a monstrous perversion that usurps the will.
Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?--from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?--from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Friday, December 10, 2010
A Lost Cause
An unconscious instinct for survival combines with our vanity and with our attachment to pleasure to produce in us, against all reason, a willingness to fight for an imagined existence full of only misery and sorrow.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
A Foolish Belief
If a man thinks he is wise, let him become a fool; for a wise man is a fool and a fool is a wise man. A wise man is wise because he knows he is a fool while the foolish man is a fool because he doesn’t know he is wise.
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The Watchman
"Some watch others to learn what to do, and some watch to learn what not to do." --Eric Hoffer in The Passionate State of Mind And...
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Moral degeneration is a downhill slide. Moral regeneration is an uphill battle.
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The desire to teach other men how to live would be laughable if it were not so pitiable.
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A definition of ignorant might be a person who is unaware that he is unaware .