Criss Jami Quotes - Page 9

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• The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

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  Rocks, Crowds, Stereotype

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.6, Criss Jami

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• Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.

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  Roots, Growth, Grows

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.34, Criss Jami

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• I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.

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  Running, Opposites, Fans

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.89, Criss Jami

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• It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

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  Flying, Over You, Doubt

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.9, Criss Jami

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• Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

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  Mind, Ecstasy, Absurdity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.126, Criss Jami

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• The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

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  Blessed, May, Sound

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.66, Criss Jami

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• The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

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  Patience, Men, Cookies

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

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  Laughing, Comedian, Hardest

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.3, Criss Jami

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• The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

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  Pain, Men, Tragedy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

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• A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

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  Numbers, Scientist, Boast

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.23, Criss Jami

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• After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

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  Mouths, Action, Realizing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.117, Criss Jami

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• Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever

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  Clever, Cleverness

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.51, Criss Jami

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• I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.

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  Strong, Rigor Mortis, Enemy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

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  Men, Special, Doe

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.90, Criss Jami

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• 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.

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  Air, Would Be, Strange

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.99, Criss Jami

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• Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

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  Mean, Imagination, Doe

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.99, Criss Jami

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• The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

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  Hater, Pride, Men

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.

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  Attitude, Justice, World News

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.104, Criss Jami

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• We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

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  Men, Thinking, Nuts

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.47, Criss Jami

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• 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.

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  Misunderstood, Genius, Fool

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.74, Criss Jami

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• God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.

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  Men, Order, Doe

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.57, Criss Jami

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• It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.

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  Strong, Teaching, Taken

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.110, Criss Jami

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• I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.

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  People, Feel Good, Enemy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

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  Men, Loving Others, Feels

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.19, Criss Jami

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• A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

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  Ambition, People, Way

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

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