Jamie Whyte famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.
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The probability of having some problem with the children is greater when the mother is over the age of 35 but I've never heard anyone suggest that anyone over the age of 35 shouldn't be allowed to have sex.
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It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to stifle discussion with good manners. Those who take religion, politics and sex seriously do not adhere to the general prohibition on discussing these topics. And they do not take offence when they are shown to be wrong. If you start to feel during a discussion, that you are not so much incorrect as insensitive, then you are probably dealing with a respectable bigot.
-- Jamie Whyte
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I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
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The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.
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Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
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I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.
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Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure.
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Sleep is just a symptom of caffeine lack
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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
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A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
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much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ...
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