Criss Jami, Killosophy Quotes
It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.
One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.
When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.
What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.
When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.
It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.
It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.
I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.
You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.
In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.
The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.
Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.
People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.
The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.
A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.
You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.
The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.
Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.
I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.
We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.
A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.
Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.
God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.
The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.
What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.
To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.