1,131 Quotes by Criss Jami

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

It's fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the atheist and the religiously corrupt boil down to the same person, the self-righteous: one denies Truth to fit his own agenda; the other manipulates Truth to fit his own agenda.

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

In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite possibly the security of mankind. They rely on something that has worked to get man this far without placing ideals blindly driven by emotion first; they have a sure line and they say, 'No.' That, in a sense, is something I find to be highly respectable.

Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning.

Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else.

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

The mob, in the spirit of the age, obsessed with being on the right side of history, often ends up on the wrong side of history.