James Rozoff Quotes

#1. Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed.

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#2. You've got to stop thinking of consciousness as your own. You're only thinking for yourself when you are by yourself. As soon as you are in the presence of others, your consciousness is linked at some level to those others.

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#3. Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.

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#4. Perhaps humility is the greatest wisdom of all.

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#5. Feminism is not inherently bourgeois, but bourgeois feminism is the only one given voice in our society. That is why women's issues discuss glass ceilings rather than dirt floors.

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#6. I pity the atheist, for he can never fully appreciate a sinful pleasure.

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#7. Love is the enjoyment one experiences by looking at the world through the eyes of another.

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#8. Man has always sought to be a part of something larger than himself, and so has tried to change himself in order to fit in. What he does not realize is that he is a part of everything merely by being himself.

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#9. Most animals sleep in a hole in the ground or hanging from a tree. Man alone has made for himself an elaborate resting place. And yet he is the only one to have developed the alarm clock to rouse himself from it, the only species to spend sixteen or more hours of each day away from it.

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#10. There is a third choice besides being busy and killing time, something profound.

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#11. Sooner or later you realize there are no answers, no answers except the ones you believe. Sooner or later faith is the only answer left.

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#12. Security is an illusion, but it is a pleasant one.

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#13. Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.

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#14. A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

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#15. We look for things or people that are incorruptible. There is nothing incorruptible, merely uncorrupted. We neglect the role we play. We value innocence, but only the kind we cannot alter. We throw mud at purity and mock it for its stain.

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#16. Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

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#17. The media is socially liberal, economically conservative, and always pro-war.

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#18. Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.

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#19. A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.

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#20. I write pre-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, I'm not interested in a future where everything is blown to hell, I'd rather write something that helps to prevent it from happening.

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#21. Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.

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#22. Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our own creation that offers us nothing but pain.

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#23. Is love a state of being we aspire to or the action required to attain that state?

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#24. It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.

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#25. Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.

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#26. It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.

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#27. Perhaps religion provides the justification for wars, but science provides the weapons.

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#28. Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I'd be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.

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#29. To be young and to experience the feeling of being alive is a sweet feeling. To feel alive and to have a purpose and a goal to that life is better still.

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#30. Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there's still something good in whatever's left.

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#31. Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

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#32. As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

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#33. The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.

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#34. Will is a gift from God, desire from the devil.

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#35. Never in mankind's history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.

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#36. If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.

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#37. There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past.

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#38. True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

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#39. People perceive the divine according to their own biases. That doesn't make the experience any less real.

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#40. Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

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#41. The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.

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#42. We have created a world we don't like, don't understand and don't trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.

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#43. Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others' butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they've known for a lifetime.

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#44. The intellect seeks to throw its own interpretation of the real over reality, and in so doing carves the world up into artificial little cubes.

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#45. Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

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#46. Where there is hope there is life.

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#47. Our country is the only one that truly permits you to speak bad of your country, so you really shouldn't say anything bad about it.

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#48. Perhaps the media may not always be telling what to think, but it is always telling you what to think about.

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#49. I don't want us to be the species that ruins it for the rest. What we do not consume we poison. Sometimes we do both. Perhaps that is how we shall end, by consuming the poisons we have created.

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#50. Humans recite the words to the play they are in without ever bothering to read the script.

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#51. When you've known somebody since childhood, you never have to worry about them seeing the child that still exists inside of you. They've already seen it. And since they still know and associate with you, it means they accept that child inside you that is never really going to go away.

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#52. Sheep only need a single flock, but people need two: one to belong to and make them feel comfortable, and another to blame all of society's problems on.

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#53. He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.

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#54. If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?

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#55. Before Ayn Rand coined the term "objectivists", we just called them "selfish assholes".

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#56. Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

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#57. Heaven is fleeting, but Hell is an eternity. Hell becomes the more so the longer one lives it.

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#58. There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

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#59. No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain .

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#60. Technology is the idol of our age. The Bible describes the evils of worshipping things built by the hand of man. Back then, it was a simple statue, today it is far more insidious. And for every problem technology creates, we look to technology for solutions.

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#61. Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.

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#62. We have to believe in free will, we have no other choice.

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#63. If patriotism is a scoundrel's last refuge, then the concept of freedom is his first sales pitch.

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#64. Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.

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#65. What is wisdom? It is the result of multiple paradigms brought to their intellectual furthest reaches and balanced and merged together. The fundamentalist, the person who only sees life through a single lens, can never hope for wisdom.

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#66. Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can't explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

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#67. TV pollutes our minds and dulls our senses. It is a babysitter that molests children. And yet those who are on the television scream "first amendment" and "freedom of speech". How is corporate control freedom of speech? And what rights did our forefathers grant corporations, anyway?

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#68. Vulgarity is like a fine wine: it should only be uncorked on a special occasion, and then only shared with the right group of people.

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#69. A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.

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#70. Intelligence resides between us as much as it resides in us. And it resides within the subconscious much more than it does the conscious. We're just conscious-biased: our conscious mind wants us to think it's the be all and end all.

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