Criss Jami, Killosophy Quotes

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.

In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

Old words are reborn with new faces.

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

God tests, but he does not tempt.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.