Quotes from Criss Jami, Killosophy

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

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

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.

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

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

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.

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.