"Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt."

-- Isaac Barrow

#Instruments Quotes #Contempt Quotes

“If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.”
“Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.”
“Is there a God? If not, what are all these churches for? And who is Jesus' dad?”
“I looked around and we were about a mile-and-a-half from land, and I thought, 'OK, I'm going to drown now.' And then I started to flail out and panic. I gradually calmed down and I got home. But the reality was that in that moment I was panicking and I feel like that to me was the clue about Ripley, that Ripley constantly finds himself out of his depth in the film and then reacts very, very badly.”
“When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.”

Source : "Towards an Acognitive Culture". Interview with Stewart Home, www.stewarthomesociety.org. March 08, 1989.
“A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.”
“I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.”
“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.”

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