When told a certain food is very spicy, a child believes it. When told a certain food is not spicy at all, a child believes it. But when told a certain is not too spicy, a child will resolutely doubt the testimony of all the world.
Category Archives: Sayings
Miyazaki On “Let It Go”
“That song ‘Let it Go’ is popular now. It’s all about being yourself. But that’s terrible. Self-satisfied people are boring. We have to push hard and surpass ourselves.” -Hayao Miyazaki in Never-Ending Man
What We Are All Especially Afraid Of
Nothing is more permanent than ‘temporary’ arrangements, deficits, truces, and relationships; and nothing is more temporary than ‘permanent’ ones. -Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
After Margery Williams
A definition… Real: that which can be faked for immediate, momentary pleasure.
Real Psychological Wisdom
My favorite single line of dialogue from any motion picture, a line I repeat often to myself as a sort of consolation, comes from Tom Alfredson’s 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and it is, “The fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.” While the line is original, I was reading the proverbs of WilliamContinue reading “Real Psychological Wisdom”
A Paradox
If a man would be content with the things he has, he must not be content with things.
On Offense
“A brother offended is not easily won,” but let’s face it, a brother who is offended by a little honest critique is not really worth winning.
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The inexperienced man trusts human beings; the experienced man trusts human nature. The inexperienced man finds common sense offensive and cruel; the experienced man knows the alternatives to common sense are crueler still. My latest for CiRCE is a series of proverbs about experience.
Proverbs
“I have been bad, but not as bad as that fellow” is something that fellow says all the time.
On Gifts
If man has no soul, giving gifts is nothing more than a slow form of suicide.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 