Criss Jami

“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”

“At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.”

“It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it...”

“A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infec...”

“Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.”

“Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then...”

“When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because hi...”

“You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.”

“Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.”

“I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.”

“Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.”

“There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually...”

“Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.”

“Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.”

“Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.”

“Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.”

“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.”

“All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.”

“They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way o...”

“As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?”