Cogitations 160

Virtue’s victory The greatest triumphs are at birth wrapped in swaddling cloths of failure and defeat. Government housing The Founding Fathers built a house upon a solid foundation of immutable principles. Politicians who have since inherited that house, sold it for a motor home of ideology and pocketed the difference. Evidenced by misconceptions A multitude [...]

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Cogitations 159

A means or an end? How can the end justify the means if the means does not end? War within You will kill your conscience or be killed by it. If you kill your conscience, you may do as you wish and feel no guilt. When your conscience kills you, you overcome temptation. There will [...]

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Cogitations 158

The right track When you truly increase in knowledge, it may seem as though you know less than you did before. Reference Famous dead men are favorite references; they will say almost anything they are desired to by those who quote them. Lasting impression Proclaim the truth when few will listen; afterward the words will [...]

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Cogitations 157

Purpose of rule The chief occupation of a government is usually a perpetual growth under a pretense of solving problems, which, by the way, it created to begin with. Harbinger of fall When a government goes downhill, it will grow like a snowball until it hits bottom and is broken to pieces by its own [...]

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Cogitations 156

Equation of life Love + effort x quality = contentment Negative inspirations Social tragedy is when a society becomes obsessed with aspiring down to role models. Gravity If gravity is your master in all likelihood you are dead; so it is with social pressures. All or nothing Know, when you will only settle for all [...]

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Cogitations 155

Wisdom trumps intellect An intelligent man is not always a wise man, but a wise man is an intelligent one. Lying to “Nazis” They who utterly forsake truth have no right to it from others for the promotion of wickedness. And even if falsehoods are wrong, there is a time when reveling the truth can [...]

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Cogitations 154

Crux of a fool The common ground of fools is not that they share an intellectual deficiency, but an opposition to reality. And it is also easy to recognize a fool; he is the one who seems to know nothing, or everything. Defining victory The one who fails is sometimes greater than the one who [...]

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Cogitations 153

Lying truths Lies may consist solely of fact, if select facts are omitted; for it is not merely fabrication that forms the crux of a lie, but an intended false impression. Empowerment of evil Modern advancements in an immoral society increase decadence by the empowerment of evil. Fractured foundations Where nothing is absolute, conclusions are [...]

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Cogitations 152

Arrival of a paradox Those who are clothed with vestures of praise and adulation upon their arrival often leave naked in contempt and infamy. On the other hand, virtue is greeted by the vehement hostility of those already in place. The power of nothing Silence is at times wiser and more powerful than even words [...]

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Cogitations 151

Non-confrontational Those who flee conflict run straight into the arms of it. The place of evil Ignorance is a hiding place of evil, but denial is its strong fortress. Fabrications A pretense of holiness is the formal attire of evil, a pretence of caring its casual wear. Helping If God helps those who help themselves, [...]

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