If your boss demands loyalty give him integrity, if your boss demands integrity give him loyalty –John Boyd
“Everyone is on the ball and no one is in position” –Michael Lewis
Civilization is the process of turning the incomprehensible into the arbitrary. Venkat Rao
The victor only writes the history books if he is literate. –Venkat Rao
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.“ –Seneca
The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe. –Somewhere in Dune / Herbert
“It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.” –Somewhere in Dune / Herbert
“No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.” –Somewhere in Dune / Herbert
“The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.” Herbert [Dune]
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. –Somewhere in Heinlein
If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat. –Somewhere in Heinlein
“To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror; to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.” Herbert [Dune]
When change outpaces your ability to comprehend it, you tend to begin to listen less and generalize more. –u/JobranFlakes
The question is not “what can I do with philosophy” but “what can philosophy do with me.” –Unknown origin
it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. –Upton Sinclair
Motivation
If you're going through hell, keep going. –Churchill
If the world looks dark and full of shit, check if your head is up your ass” –Alex Hormozi
You cannot change your fate, but you can rise to meet it” –Elder [Princes Mononoke]
“Hunger is a kind of optimism” –Kim stanley robinison [at long now talk]
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. –Somewhere in Dune / Herbert
The price *is* the reward –Mark
If your boss asks you for integrity, give him loyalty. If he ask's for loyalty give him integrity –Boyd
I will loose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be retrieved nor can I substitute another day for it” –Og Mandino [The greatest salesman in the world]
never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which carried it's owner over even one inch of ground” –Og Mandino [The greatest salesman in the world]
Certainty makes one blind, Uncertainty makes one paralyzed” -Me
“Ever loved someone so much, you would do anything for them? Yeah, well make that someone yourself and do whatever the hell you want.” –Harvey Specter [TV show suits]
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller
“If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice” –anonymous
Fatigue makes cowards of us all. –Vince Lombardi
“Sometimes dreams are there to destroy you” –Deepa
Spirituality/Mysticism
Thou art God, and I am God and all that groks is God. –Somewhere in Heinlein
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer –Terence McKenna
The world you see is smaller than the world that is Oglaf
magic is the art and science of causing changes in consciousness in accordance with will. –Dion Fortune
There are many doors. Death is the first. –Tycho Brahe
Society/Tech
They say power corrupts, but this is not so; corruption is already within all of us, and we lack only the necessary authority and power to unleash our own personal evil on the world. –Unknown
Society is an anonymous enterprise for living a life of secondhand emotions -Péladan
The future will be about Old People in Big Cities Afraid of the Sky –Bruce Sterling [Talking about Demographically aging population, Demographic shift to living in cities, and climate change]
“This is how authoritarian regimes take power: democracies collapse when, due to the usual mechanisms of oligarchic capture, they stop even trying to solve society’s problems, and finally people turn in desperation to somebody who will take power and clear away the obstacles” –John Michael Greer
The Courts… are terrifying places, lorded over by thoroughly finite, deeply imperfect beings. –Jerry Holkins
the Darth Vader MBA program (“I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further”) –Cory Doctorow
“The idiot sees the world as Good vs Evil. The cynic sees the world as Evil vs Evil. The truth that no one seems able to see is that the world is, and always has been, a battle of Good vs. Good.” –Norm McDonald
Man, as a social animal, can no more escape government than the individual can escape bondage to his bowels. –Jubal Harshaw [Stranger in a strange land]
The tolerance for uncertainty goes up as death becomes certain –Kevin Kelly
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. –Nietzsche
sometimes it’s better to pull numbers out of your ass and use them to get an answer, than to pull an answer out of your ass. –Slate Star Codex
Calling someone a rent-seeker is sort of an economist’s way of telling them to die in a fire Slate star codex
Since gluten-free diets get tried for everything, and everything gets tried for autism, it was overdetermined that people would try gluten-free diets for autism. slate star codex
observational studies of lifestyle habits are class oppression –velveteenAmbush