When you draw the line, your enemy knows where to cross.

Paranoia is a form of self-reflection. Depression is unbounded self-criticism.

The manipulation of information will be responsible for the downfall of human society.

Any attempt to live your life for someone above you diminishes your ability to live your life for yourself.

Our blind acceptance of the dreamworld in a dream should serve as a cold, daily reminder that perceptions do not define reality.

The fallacy in showcasing a puzzle piece is the assumption that there exist more pieces to the puzzle.

People infrequently argue against what is actually said, but instead stand in opposition to a mistaken perception of what is meant by the words that have been used.

"To be outraged is to be morally superior."

- Deepak Chopra

Considering a news source to be trustworthy is like eating a meal and asking someone else to tell you whether or not you liked it.

Hold someone accountable for what they mean to say, not by what one can make it sound like they mean.

Insulting someone in text and misspelling the last word is like giving the finger while walking away and tripping on a rock.

If you must deceive in order to advance your agenda, you have an agenda unworthy of advancement.

People who are extraordinarily comfortable with things that most others find offensive always seem to make up for it by having that hypocritical sensitivity to at least one subject, simply because it somehow relates directly to them. Like someone who tells racist jokes at a party but then de-friends you for making fun of retards because his brother is down syndrome.

Desire for the world to be a certain way leads people to try their hardest to believe that it is.

Not even God himself seems capable of making something that everyone agrees is good.

"Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb -- that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully ... which only reinforces that particular Lie."

- Phillip K. Dick, Exegesis

The less you know, the less you know how little you know.

People often complain that the state of things are getting worse when really they are merely discovering the awful truth about the way things have always been.

Critique has no better friend than ignorance.

Things exist. It would therefore seem that there is currently no such thing as nothingness. Does this also mean that nothingness never was nor can ever be?

Embellishment is the cancer of discourse.

Consensus does not resolve ethical dilemmas.

The only thing as bad as believing anything is explicitly distrusting everything.

Sometimes I wish I could meet just one person on this planet who thinks the way that I do, but I'm also sometimes eternally thankful that every once in a while, someone I do know changes the way that I think.

Politicians not in power are like backseat drivers who give you wrong directions and then get angry when you wind up in the wrong place.

Sometimes, but certainly not always, you can measure how right you are by counting the number of people who tell you that you're wrong.

Where there are people to be led, there are people to be lied to.

All things are fundamentally interconnected, and any exhaustive research into two seemingly unrelated subjects will inevitably yield inexplicable but possibly meaningful coincidences.

- The important word here is "possibly". The human imagination's ability to ascribe meaning far too often works arbitrarily. ~ E.V. 8/6/13

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you just can't stop things from ending badly.

People will say just about anything to win an argument; even when they're not sure that what they say is true, sometimes when they know it isn't.

Mythical creatures always shriek their loudest just before they die.

In a social network, human hubs make for poor routers but excellent repeaters.

Never underestimate the power of a few people on the Internet to come across as a majority.

People always use the word "always" when they really mean "most of the time" or "a lot" or "more than once" or "once."

It is sometimes better to ask questions than to draw conclusions.

If someone challenges you with a question and the answer seems much too easy, stop for a moment and think about all the reasons that answer might be wrong. You might be surprised to find out that it is.

The skills required for competence often are the same skills necessary to recognize competence. Hence, if you are incompetent, you probably don't know it.

If you have a very strong opinion about something, you're probably not qualified to have it.

I don't like the idea of a spiritually dead planet, but I also cannot embrace one ruled by superstition.

The most common arguments against something are often based on misconceptions regarding it.

"The Universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then it will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't know is that when the Universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make you will live through again and again forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around because this time is all you have."

- Prot, K-Pax

Being born is the most common precursor to death.

Reason will always suffer tremendously at the hands of stigma.

People who think that there is a way that things ought to be often don't understand why things are the way they are.

Those who champion specific commandments of religious dogma likely ignore many of the others.

When someone tells you, before you do something, that if you do it, someone else might be angered to the point of violence, it is not a threat; it's called "advice." They may be attempting to play upon your fears in order to get what they want, but it's still not a threat. Only when they themselves have the power to create the violence of which they warn - and promise to do so - can it be considered thus.

Data that contradicts belief tends to be ignored.

The most important lessons you will ever learn are the ones that are easy to forget.

A wise man once said nothing at all.

The way in which a question is asked invariably effects the way in which is it answered.

If the headline ends with a question mark, what you're reading isn't news.

"It's dangerous to always think with exclamation points instead of question marks."

- Marty Beckerman

A great number of people who tell you that they are for something are actually not for it at all. Many of them do not even realize it.

Statements made in absolute certainty are almost certainly stated in relative ignorance.