Chris Novoa's Most Shallow Depths

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Chairman: Item six on the agenda: the meaning of life. Now, uh, Harry, you've had some thoughts on this.
Harry: That's right. Yeah, I've had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and, uh, what we've come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One: People are not wearing enough hats. Two: Matter is energy. In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However this soul does not exist ab initio as orthodox christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self observation. However, this is rarely achieved, owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.
Bert: What was that about hats, again?

Goals and planning are a luxury meant for those with luck, charm, and a lax sense of ethics.

A thing of beauty is a liability forever.

A fool flatters himself; the wise man flatters the fool.

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

A good deed never goes unpunished

Human intelligence is a house of cards built on sand in the desert wind.

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be.

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

Be suspicious of the path with no obstacles

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake

We build modern life on the minds of the dead.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech

Dreaming permits each of and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Stop praying. Start thinking.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Genius is born--not paid.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over.

Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.

the probability of being observed is in direct proportion to the stupidity of ones actions.

If anything can go wrong, it will happen to the crankiest person.

Anyone who isn't paranoid simply isn't paying attention.

When you really need something, its either not available, or can't be found. When you don't need it, its either available, or lays around in plain sight

As the wallet grows, so do the needs.

Hey!

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.

Note the trees because the dirt is temporary

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Downfall of man is not the end of his life.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.

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A man's judgment should not be based on his habit, manner or culture, but his intent.

The mighty internal combustion engine in all its glory... how it has currently changed the course of human history... the wars waged to power them... We give up sustainability in order to wander.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who do not posess it.

When i've stopped dreaming... bury me.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

A Great law protects me from the government. The Bill of Rights has 10 GREAT laws. A Good law protects me from you. Laws against murder, theft, assault and the like are good laws. A Poor law attempts to protect me from myself.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

To understand everything is to forgive everything

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

Before you judge the younger generation remember who raised them.

Children act in the village as they have learned at home.

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself

The worst form of inequality is to make unequal things equal

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought

People who cry about stereotypes are usually upset because they fall into them. We don't have time to get to know every single person we see. We have to stereotype people in certain ways to know which one of them wants to kill us for our wallet, which ones can't drive, and which ones enjoy the taste of falafel. If we didn't have stereotypes, we'd be doing stupid shit like walking up to bikers and asking who won today's tennis match

Some people are like Slinkies: not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs

This random thought brought to you by the worry that I'm nearly 25 and haven't achieved anything of note

Happiness is a zero-sum game.

Beware driving behind the jesus-fish car.

A jug fills drop by drop.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Chastity is: "The most unnatural of the sexual perversions."

On religion: "You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough." - Point Counter Point

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

If you can neither adequately and fairly prove or disprove your point in an argument then keep your mouth shut and your mind open.

Never make someone your priority when you remain their option.

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny

Tell me and I will forget
Show me and I may remember
Involve me and I will understand

If I aim to fail and I succeed, have I succeeded or have I failed?