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All aphorisms (33)

• "That which can be destroyed by the truth should be." — PC Hodgell
• “[In Heaven there] is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness: but your darkness cannot now infect our light.” — CS Lewis
• "And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds" — Hebrews 10:24
• “The ideal of the most high spirited, alive, and world affirming human being who has not only come to terms and learned to get along with whatever was and is, but who wants to have what was and is repeated into all eternity, shouting insatiably da capo [from the beginning].” — Nietzsche
• "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man" — George Barnard Shaw
• "The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and the changing, not in the become and the set-fast; and therefore, similarly, the reason is concerned only to strive towards the divine through the becoming and the living, and the understanding only to make use of the become and the set-fast." — Goethe
• “Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.” — Edsger W. Dijkstra
• "In the silence of the heart, God speaks" — Mother Teresa
• "All of what is (questions of how do we achieve) can be solved for at the least through calculus (nabla C) ordered on opportunity cost to any abstract principle. I am far more interested in the question: what should we achieve?" — JNC
• "I have had it with crack houses, dictatorships, torture chambers, disease, old age, spinal paralysis, and world hunger. I have had it with a death rate of 150,000 sentient beings per day. I have had it with this planet. I have had it with mortality. None of this is necessary. The time has come to stop turning away from the mugging on the corner, the beggar on the street. It is no longer necessary to close our eyes, blinking away the tears, and repeat the mantra: "I can't solve all the problems of the world." We can. We can end this." — Yudkowsky
• "Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." — GK Chesterton
• "One shouldn't optimise - only rethink plans, or better, plan better." — JNC
• "Unfortunately, most work in the modern world goes to optimising changes that create far less than high-variance, new ideas." — JNC
• "Probably the most profound illusion under which we normally operate is that we do not take seriously the wonder of other people" — Matthew Adelstein
• "Simplicity is power" — JNC
• "When people choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything." — GK Chesterton
• "We wish to be loved. A precondition of that is to be seen [fully]." — JNC
• "Each individual is continually engaged in a personal adjustment process in which he balances the desire for privacy with the desire for disclosure and communication of themself to others, in light of the environmental conditions and social norms set by the society in which they live." — Alan Westin
• "Ascetics will leave the world alone because they live within the temple or monastery. The Christian on the other hand is the temple that enters into the world in order to redeem it into the Kingdom of God." — Unknown
• "Being as an artist-king who radically affirms his appetite for life and macht (creative power) eked out of his primordial kraft (power). This is the Ubermensch. Being as a servant of truth and morality. This is the Christian. I wish to aspire to both (the Ubermensch wishes to swallow the cross, the cross gives meaning to the kraft; Whatever that means)." — JNC
• "Perhaps the whole point of life is to study and appreciate immanence and in that understanding rejoice; immanence, the idea that you live continually with God in your life, expressed in all things." — JNC
• "The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges" — Edsger W. Dijkstra
• "Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away." — 1 Corinthians 13:8
• "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." — 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
• "Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love" — Rainer Rilke
• "The human world [of policy] is a topography of incentives. Judge based off of how the flow moves, not what is said." — JNC
• "The safest sin: envy, which is easily disguised as enthusiasm for equality." — Thomas Szasz
• "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; Hate cannot drive out hate." — MLK
• "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." — Friedrich Hayek
• "There is nothing impossible to him who will try" — Alexander III of Macedon
• "I can do all things through him who strengthens me" — Philippians 4:13
• "The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." — J.R.R. Tolkien
• "And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many." — J.R.R. Tolkien