Criss Jami, Killosophy Quotes

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

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.

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.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

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.

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.

When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.

Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

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.

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.

If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

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

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.

Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

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

Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.