The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
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A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
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Luke 1:17:
'And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous – to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.'
(NIV)
And he will [himself] go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn back the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient and incredulous and unpersuadable to the wisdom of the upright [which is the knowledge and holy love of the will of God]--in order to make ready for the Lord a people [perfectly] prepared [in spirit, adjusted and disposed and placed in the right moral state]. [Isa. 40:3; Mal. 4:5, 6.](AMP)
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
(KJV)
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
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Memories are all we really own.
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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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John 1:25:
Questioned him, 'Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?'
(NIV)
And they asked him, Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?
(AMP)
And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
(KJV)
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Mark 9:11:
And they asked him, 'Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?'
(NIV)
And they asked Him, Why do the scribes say that it is necessary for Elijah to come first? [Mal. 4:5, 6.](AMP)
And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
(KJV)
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Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.
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Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
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