STILL MORE APTE DICTUM

[Also see my blog entries Apte Dictum (November 3, 2010) and More Apte Dictum (January 7, 2011).]

Too Many Truths Spoil The Cloth. (A religious riddle.)

There is only one way to prove the existence of God, the ‘scientific’ way, which is… by postulate!

Religion is like the Nietzschean poison: if it does not kill us, it makes us stronger.

We all know the story of the Six Days of Creation, but how many of us realize that the history of the world (the Past, the Present, and the Future) is God’s Seventh Day?

Only the Devil is always welcome to write a book about God. (An allegory.)

In God we trust, in freedom… we shouldn’t!

The proof is in the pudding, and not in the recipe. (A geopolitical riddle for those who for some reason think otherwise.)

A French proverb says, “The better" is the enemy of the good. In my paraphrase, “The worse” is the enabler of the bad.

The best characterization of chauvinistic mentality can be found in Nietzsche’s Jenseits-19:

“I am free, ‘he’ must obey.”

It is wrong to assume that Nietzsche’s master and slave moralities are distributed exclusively along national, racial, or ethnic lines. The fault line often runs among members of the same otherwise homogenous family. I guess one can have two identical twins, one a master, the other a slave.

The soul of a nation can be seen like a reflection of the moon in the lake of an individual soul.

It is not necessary to study the psychology of Helios, to realize that an Icarus would get badly hurt coming too close to him.

Sex without love is like passing stool: a bodily function, and nothing to be proud of.

Love is the most glorious triumph of irrationality over rationality.

Charging money for sex or expecting favors from it is the most inglorious triumph of rationality over irrationality.

In the long run, we shall all be… cured!

Many of our best thoughts are triggered by the wisdom of other thinkers, and I see nothing wrong in it. The main criterion in such cases is, to use the language of economics, whether the added value of the final product counts as a net profit to humanity, in which case, go for it, friend!

Folklore is the mother’s milk of human civilizations.

Art is a state of being rather than of becoming, thus representing a triumph of permanence over change.