Quotes from Criss Jami, Healology

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

The purest regret, no matter what, is thinking you didn't love enough.

The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.

God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners.

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.

Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.

Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it...and even more to live it.

You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.