Part 25 (1/2)
What are the facts? Again and again and again-what are the facts? facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what ”the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable ”verdict of history”-what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts! Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what ”the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable ”verdict of history”-what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
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Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
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G.o.d is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevotent-it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills.
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Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.) [image]
The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of ”loyalty” and ”duty.” Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute-get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.
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People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
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The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
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Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as ”empty,” ”meaningless,” or ”dishonest,” and scorn to use them. No matter how ”pure” their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a s.h.i.+p, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, a.n.a.lyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
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The more you love, the more you can can love-and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how love-and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just. you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.
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Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free of any possibility of wrongdoing-and you don't have to go home in the cold. But it's lonely lonely.
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Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
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If tempted by something that feels ”altruistic,” examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!
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The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord G.o.d of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.
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The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently sinful.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of-but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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$100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000-by which time it will be worth nothing.
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Dear, don't bore him with trivia or burden him with your past mistakes. The happiest way to deal with a man is never to tell him anything he does not need to know.
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Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona persona requires. requires.
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Everybody lies about s.e.x.
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If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called ”behaviorist psychology.” So they are wrong from scratch-as clever and as wrong as phlogiston chemists.
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The shamans are forever yacking about their snake-oil ”miracles.” I prefer the Real McCoy-a pregnant Woman.
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If the universe has any purpose more important than topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I've never heard of it.
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Thou shalt remember the Eleventh Commandment and keep it Wholly.
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