Thursday, March 11, 2010

From the Devils Dictionary

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

AMBITION, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum — whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum — "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

- Friedrich Nietschze

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

a poem

Truth is like a cascading rainbow

Multicoloured and unreal

Yet without it lost and dazed,

We cannot help but feel.


Men are malleable.

Truth has many faces.

One mans rebel is another mans liberator,

Both with sound cases.


So how, you ask, do I know what’s right?

And what bad man that I must fight?

Cleanse the filter that surrounds you

And see for yourself what this world contains.

Precise ground your feet will never fall,

But the enlightened stance you will attain.


The only truth there is, you see


Is the one we ourselves behold.

Sooner or later we will realise

We make our own resolve.