That has to be one of the most backward statements that I have ever read. Definitely good for a chuckle in dark humor.
"To see the world as it is and not as we'd like it to be is the beginning of wisdom."-Bertrand Russell.
“Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.” Ricky Gervais
My favourite quote, and perhaps one that has already been posted is: I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it." - François-Marie Arouet "Voltaire" On a less serious note: "I've always wondered why people ask why." - Anon. Here a few from my characters, mostly written just for fun, but I like them anyway. "Just because someone is 'evil' or 'bad' does not make them wrong." "Humiliation only matters to the victim." "Power is worthless to all but the holder." "What reason can you give to make your cause any more righteous than another's?" "Courage is not in the action, but in the decision" "The lesson is not about what is being taught, but what is being understood." "Excuses and reasons are not the same."
"There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tiredness's. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe." Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet.
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." -Samuel Johnson (epigraph to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
* "Be yourself" is the worst f*****g piece of advice on the planet. Your true self is a lazy inadequate asshole. Improvement is not a choice but a necessity." * "When we stand together, as white and black and Hispanic and gay and straight and woman and man, when we stand together and demand that this country works for all of us rather than the few, we will transform America." - Bernie Sanders * "There is one idea which I wish I could kill (aside from the standard make the world a better place ones, like racism, sexism ect.), and that is the idea that being cynical is the same thing as being smart. We live in increasingly cynical times, and why not? As soon as anything gets held up as an ideal, someone is already writing a ten page expose that digs up every dirty little secret that individual or group has. Every flaw of anyone or anything in the public eye gets magnified and picked apart until every election looks like it's between Hitler McKittenRaper and Stalin "I bathe in the blood of virgins for kicks" Jewkiller. But you know what? It's not smart, it's exactly what the article said it is, myopic self serving egotism. I spent my college years in exactly that mindset, and whenever I look back at that time I really want to go back and punch myself in the dick."
"People who went out passed the edge, saw that vast nothingness and went giggledly over it." "Hell, I've been to the edge. Just looked like...more space."
All good @Miller0700 really agree with this Amazing what people believe intelligence is and what it isn't.
Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both For a wounded man will shall say to his assailant "If I live, I will kill you. If I die, you are forgiven" Such is the rule of honor -Lamb Of God-
I don't think it's that they think it is so much as they it is a smart idea certainly. That it's wise. When it's a difficult issue, as is pessimism v optimism. There's a good deal of perspective in it so we need to be careful about thinking our opinions of it are objective.
Maybe. But I have no desire to dwell on negativity or cynicism. Mine or anyone else's. Don't know about anyone else but it's not healthy for me. I can do my own negativity just fine. I'm just saying I've learned to avoid situations & people that make me feel bad. Regarding intelligence - I wasn't referring to just cynicism. It always amazes me how the most ignorant people (about a particular issue) think they have all the answers.
Speaking of which, I found a more concise one: "Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow. -Stephen Colbert"