When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
Honesty • Silence • Deception
Scccccratccch the most clever postmodern-relativist professor’s Mercedes with a key, and you will see how fast the mask of relativism (with its pretense that there can be neither right nor wrong) and the cloak of radical tolerance come off.
Education • Morality • Philosophy
Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
Dreams • Enlightenment • Exploration
The story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there’s nothing freeing about that.
Freedom • Morality • Passion
Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer.
Advice • Society
Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
Danger • Ideology • Knowledge
That which is valuable is pure, properly aligned, and glitters with light — and this is true for the person just as it is for the gem.
Improvement • Light • Purity
If you rewire the unconscious mechanisms that maintain you with assumptions derived from something you know to be unreal, then your meaningful instinct will take you places you should not go, in proportion to its corruption. There is little more terrifying than the possibility that you could come to a crisis point in your life when you need every faculty you possess, at that moment, to make the decision properly, only to find you have pathologized yourself with deceit and can no longer rely on your own judgment. Good luck to you, because nothing but luck will then serve to save you.
Crisis • Deception
If you confront the limitations of life courageously, that provides you with a certain psychological purpose that serves as an antidote to the suffering.
Courage • Limits • Psychology
The meaning that sustains life in all its tragedy and disappointment is to be found in shouldering a noble burden.
Life • Motivational • Philosophy
