{"id":11755,"date":"2010-03-20T19:24:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T19:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/20\/aphorisms-good-and-bad\/"},"modified":"2010-03-20T19:24:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T19:24:36","slug":"aphorisms-good-and-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/20\/aphorisms-good-and-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Aphorisms Good and Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

These, by <\/font>Nicolas Gomez Davila<\/font><\/a>, tr. Michael Gilleland, are good:<\/font><\/p>\n

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With God there are only individuals. (I, 16) <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The individual shrinks in proportion as the state grows. (I, 21) <\/font><\/p>\n

The authenticity of the feeling depends on the clarity of the thought. (I, 24) <\/font><\/p>\n

To refuse to wonder is the mark of the beast. (I, 25) <\/font><\/p>\n

The one who renounces seems weak to the one incapable of renunciation. (I, 25) <\/font><\/p>\n

Genuine allegiance to an idea surpasses every psychological or social motivation. (I, 28) <\/font><\/p>\n

The incoherent interlocutor is more irritating than the hostile one. (I, 39)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click on the above link for many more.<\/font><\/p>\n

But the following, by <\/font>Werner Erhard<\/font><\/a> of EST fame, are bad:<\/font><\/p>\n

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The truth doesn't mean anything. It just is.<\/font><\/p>\n

Love is a function of communication.<\/font><\/p>\n

Health is a function of participation.<\/font><\/p>\n

Self Expression is a function of responsibility.<\/font><\/p>\n

Perfection is a state in which things are the way they are and are not the way they are not. As you can see, this universe is perfect. Don't lie about it.<\/font><\/p>\n

You're god in your universe. You caused it. You pretended not to cause it so that you could play in it, and you can remember you caused it any time you want to.<\/font><\/p>\n

If you're not all right the way you are it takes a lot of effort to get better. Realize you're all right the way you are, and you'll get better naturally.<\/font><\/p>\n

One creates from nothing. If you try to create from something you're just changing something. So in order to create something you first have to be able to create nothing. <\/font><\/p>\n

Life is a game. In order to have a game something has to be more important than something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn't, the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn't, is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.<\/font><\/p>\n

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. A master is someone who found out.<\/font><\/p>\n

The essence of communication is intention.<\/font><\/p>\n

The end is the end, or it isn't.<\/font><\/p>\n

The end justifies the means, or it doesn't.<\/font><\/p>\n

If God told you exactly what it was you were to do, you would be happy doing it no matter what it was. What you're doing is what God wants you to do. Be happy.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These, by Nicolas Gomez Davila, tr. Michael Gilleland, are good: With God there are only individuals. (I, 16) The individual shrinks in proportion as the state grows. (I, 21) The authenticity of the feeling depends on the clarity of the thought. (I, 24) To refuse to wonder is the mark of the beast. (I, 25) … Continue reading “Aphorisms Good and Bad”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}