Life | Tuesday’s Aphorisms
What people love in others is what they cannot see. What they say they love about other people overtly is not the truth. The truth is held covertly. You fall in love with what you cannot see in a person; this is the opposite of their overt persona. The person you love for being messy is really orderly, and the externally orderly lover is deeply messy.
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The attempt to cling to something is what destroys it. It is no use trying to be good or trying to like something. You are either completely absorbed in that task or not. You may think it is a good thing to be an engineer or a journalist or an Englishman, but you will be what you are no matter what your intentions are.
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Love exists when you are not aware of it. Love is quickly destroyed by making a person conscious of it, for it then becomes an obligation and we detest what is obligated. This is why we hate greetings cards, because the sentimentality of these overt messages destroys love.
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All a person can do is align their mind to the task that they will undertake anyway. It is the unconscious, the desire to be what you really are, that will derail all your schemes and ideas anyway. There are people who really want to be destroyed, even though they insist that they are saving themselves. The Nazis, for example, insisted that they wanted to raise Germany up – all they did was destroy her completely. The English never set out to build a world empire. They attained it by accident; it was only when they became conscious that they had an empire and had to maintain it that they began to destroy it.
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You always need to pay attention to your first instinct about a person or thing. This is usually the truth. People second-guess themselves and think this is intelligence. But the highest intelligence is to accept the immediate and first impression. If you feel fear with a person, then that person is fearful and you must run.
This is why very stupid and very intelligent people are the same. The stupid person has not learned the social status games that cause people not to speak the truth. The very intelligent person has seen through these games.
We are, unfortunately, governed by a great many clever-stupid people of the average and above average level intelligence who have second guessed themselves with clever word games as to the nature of reality.
They sneer at the genius and the idiot, while telling clever lies to each other.
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The aristocrat and the man in the gutter are the same. They like fighting, fucking, frank speaking, and losing money in gambling. They do not work, so they have time to appreciate and create beauty.
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There are people who should be paid not to work, because they cause more trouble and problems in a job than sitting at home watching TV. If forced to participate in the economy, they will actually lower productivity and efficiency.
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The truth is not very much connected with intelligence. Intelligence merely allows people to play complex games of deception.
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Intelligent people often dislike the truth, because it is too simple. It is true that some truths are arrived at through a complicated process, but this is not so for far from all of them. Further, even the truths that are arrived at by a complicated process can usually be summarised in essence in a simple true statement. Indeed, if an idea cannot be reduced to a simple and widely comprehensible statement then it is usually not true.
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People like to move directly to the right answer without showing their working. They do not realise that the working, the journey, is the most interesting part of solving a problem.
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You can’t not live up to your potential.
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Everyone gets what they want; it’s just that what you think you want isn’t what you really want.
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The means you use to solve a problem amounts to a style.
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Policemen and criminal are more alike each other than they are like civilians. Opposing soldiers in a war are more alike than they are similar to their own civilians.
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In reality, the insane are sane and the psychologists are mad. The psychiatrists tend to be okay in some respects.
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If you understand yourself, you will understand other people. This is because mankind exists in psychic unity, but we have a necessary illusion that we are psychologically separate. There no “other people” and there is no “you”, but we must pretend that there are these divisions to keep the show on the road. This is why you seem to “know” things about other people without them ever saying – or even after barely meeting them.
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There are a lot of people who play at being idiots, because it is preferable to involvement with the games of the clever.
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Thinking is like breathing.
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What I mean by this is that you no more control your breath than your thoughts. Can you hold your thoughts in the same way as you hold your breath? Yes, you can do that, but just like breathing you must take a big gulp after several seconds. All you can do is watch your thoughts, you cannot stop them. People become distressed by thinking they can stop their thoughts.
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People think that those who make a lot of money must be making an effort. They are confused. If you are not the type to make money, the thought of making money seems to be an effort. The people who make money are just doing what they do, and they cannot do otherwise. This is why people who are rich are often bewildered and cannot respond when people ask them how they did it. This is also why they feel guilty, as if they didn’t deserve it. To become rich by just doing what you do seems unfair to them, although it is the fairest thing in the world.
In reality, there was no effort. They did what they had to do. I am not saying that they didn’t work hard, rather I am saying there was no mental effort to force themselves to do what they had to do. There was no resistance. They simply had to do what they did and so did it.
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The guilt of the rich drives things like socialism and other unnatural movements.
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Karl Marx was a terrible snob and married a princess. It is a shame he didn’t admit that he loved wealth and power openly. Few people attended his funeral. His great dark intellectual shadow threw up a movement addicted to power, and addicted to forever drawing his image across the world.
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“If I had an income of 5,000 francs,” Engels told Marx, “I would do nothing but work and amuse myself with women until I went to pieces.”
This is why it is better for rich parents to indulge their children. If the children of the rich are not idle, they spend their time inventing terrible ideas like Marxism.
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Engels, who advocated free love, remained loyal to the same lover for 20 years.
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Engels only opposed marriage because he couldn’t marry the woman he wanted to.
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The people who promote multiculturalism and multiracialism are the greatest cultural chauvinists and promoters of racial division in the contemporary world. The constant attempt to claim that all cultures are the same and that there is no real division to them amounts to the claim that all cultures should be destroyed. Similarly, the desire to abolish all racial and ethnic distinctions and the mass propaganda that encourages this actually enforces racial and ethnic divisions.
The problem these people have is that they cannot trust cultural, ethnic, and racial differences to resolve in their own way and according to nature. They must meddle, and their meddling creates enmity and hatred. Remember, hatred means the desire for something not to exist.
The person who says there are no cultural, religious, civilisational, ethnic, or racial divisions is calling for large numbers of people not to exist.
They are full of hate.
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The leftists who make public declarations to the effect that they are glad Western civilisation and white people will no longer exist are, in reality, terrified that these things will cease to exist. I see the fear in their eyes and words. They think that by wishing on catastrophe that they will become content with it. Their hidden intent is to preserve these things, for they cause people to react to their lecturing by preserving Western civilisation and white ethnic groups.
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The fairest harmony that ever existed between civilisations, cultures, races, and ethnicities came about through the innocent pursuit of money and sex.
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Moralists are immoral.
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People often say, quite dismissively, “greed is good”. They think they are being ironic.
But it is good.
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If you tell a person what to do, they will never do it.
If you tell a person that you are not advising them and that this is what you would do if you were in their position, they will do exactly what you say.
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True objectivity is fiercely subjective.
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There is nothing more outrageous than taking joy in your work – even people who take joy in their work will hide their joy, lest someone becomes envious that it is enjoyed.
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People become angry and resentful at the unemployed, not so much because they are doing nothing, but because they are not suffering from being good.
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Since overt declarations are usually opposites, we know that adverts are always contrariwise to their intent. The product that is supposed to make you happy will make you unhappy. The product that is supposed to make you more efficient will make you inefficient. The products we really want are never advertised, because we know that we really need them and there is no need to advertise them.
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People struggle to overcome difficulties with their parents. Eventually, you acknowledge that it is the son’s fate to be at odds with his father and it is the daughter’s fate to be at odds with her mother. However, people much prefer to spend a life time trying to “fix” things with their father or mother rather than simply acknowledging the necessary opposition.
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“I’ve changed.” People do change, but they also remain exactly the same.
The only change that comes over you is to become more consciously aware of the processes that make you what you are.
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People tell each other that they’ve changed, because they’re ashamed that they’re exactly the same.
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The stone in the river changes shape, but it cannot change material. The human personality is worn away in different ways over the years, but it is still the same material. This is why a person is always completely familiar and completely different to you.
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Despite an insistence that one man is better than another or one woman superior to another, the fact remains that they’re all just the same.
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People are told from a very early age to say “sorry”. “Say it like you really mean it,” says the mother. In this way, the child learns how to be very good at pretending to be sorry. This act becomes so elaborate that eventually we cannot tell whether we really are sorry or not. We look for proof outside the word: “He must be really sorry, because he looked very sad when he said it. He must be really sorry, because he bought me flowers.” It is the same with love and much else in the world.
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We say that children live a make-believe world of fantasy. But, of course, it is children who are telling the truth and the adults who are playing out an elaborate fantasy completely detached from reality.
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Children are banned from offices, court rooms, and many other important places so that they will not interfere with the process of adults lying to each other.
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A woman told me, “You think like a child!”
But I was only telling the truth!
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A woman told me, “You speak in riddles!”
But I was only telling the truth!
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Women complain that men are like children or childish, but it is women who are immature. This is because women take social affairs, medals, money, dances, and the social illusion seriously. Men understand that what is real is play, joy, truth, and adventure. This is the mature and child-like attitude to life. We could say that women are more adult but less mature than men. Men are more child-like but more mature than women.
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Only children are completely serious.
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School teachers are the murderers of truth and reality.
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The attempt to protect people from the consequences of saying something hurtful are always much worse than the hurt you inflict by telling the truth.
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I don’t have a single original thought.
