Criss Jami, Killosophy Quotes

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

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.

Normality is the new eccentric.

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.

Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.

Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.

Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.

His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why.

God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the flesh lowers one to a child with gold.

Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.

The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.

The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy.

I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.

Of course we'll win. And even if we were to lose, we'd win at losing.

The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as 'the brilliant one' but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

I've finally decided to write about profit for a changeBut before I really started I already started to feel lameBaby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed

In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.

The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.

It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.

The more we love God, the more unpleasant sin becomes.

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.

It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.