Quotes from Criss Jami, Killosophy

If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

I'm not offended until you think I'm offended.