Quotes

Alternative titles

• commonplace book
• heap of things
• quotes i expanded on because i found it fitting
• Pretentious Bullshit I Partially Disagree With
• raw excerpts

actually linking/sourcing them is too much effort, so too bad if you want to find the origin. go do it yourself. dig up your own knowledge

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“Dependence is a subtle poison, slowly seeping into the soul, until one can no longer distinguish the self from the shackles that bind it.”

They’re idiots, their pathetic. All their little minds can imagine as the pinnacle of this technology is a machine that looks and feels human. But why would you ever want that? Humans are stupid, humans can double-think themselves into believing that the god they were raised to think is real while their neighbour who worships another is a lie and a cheat and a fool, while also being aware that neither of them has any more proof than the other. Humans are the bottom, the bare minimum when it comes to intellect and reasoning. Why in the world would you want your AI to be as smart as a human? If we create AI and they’re not entirely alien to us, then we will know that we’ve failed.

Keep it private till its permanent

“What had brought us out of such moments was our pioneer spirit, our determination and resolve!”

“for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health”

“The best long-term investment? Land. Real-estate. That’s why there isn’t an acre of land left for sale on Earth. It was such a good investment that it was invested in.”

“I don’t speak”, Bijaz said. “I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.”

The road to wisdom? Well, it’s plain
and simple to express:

Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.

“People are impossibly fond of useless crap. Slap a number on it, call it collectible, and make it even moderately interesting, appealing, sexy, or cute, and you’ll trigger something real deep in that person’s mind.”

Understand: we are all too afraid — of offending people, of stirring up conflict, of standing out from the crowd, of taking bold action. For thousands of years our relationship to this emotion has evolved — from a primitive fear of nature, to generalized anxiety about the future, to the fearful attitude that now dominates us. As rational, productive adults we are called upon to finally overcome this downward trend and to evolve beyond our fears.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily see a crisis or problem as a challenge, an opportunity to prove your mettle, the chance to strengthen, toughen, and forge yourself.

“My greatest motivator? Laziness, the will to not have to do much in the future.”

We need a new minority to pin things on. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to blame trans people or the gays. I can’t think of any new group to marginalize though. We have a few options, but none of them fit all of our criteria: 1. We need them to be relatively poor. 2. We can’t have that group be associated with us politically already. 3. They need a distinct culture. 4. They can’t be a group that’s well integrated with our own community. 5. The less media representation they have, the better. We’ll take care of first impressions. 6. If they have historical reasons for being disliked, then that would be a bonus. I’m thinking we can have the people in the south turn against the French? There’s a small but strong French community around New Orleans that we could pin things on. But then the actual French are pretty strong, so it could blow back against us. Ideas?

here’s meaning to be found in a stagnant life

I do have faith in you, HATE. I’m mostly teasing you to keep your mood up. You’re unusually motivated by antagonism, even of the more friendly variety. But I do think that, if you set your mind to it, you’ll master this in due time.

For thousands of years our relationship to this emotion has evolved, from a primitive fear of nature, to generalized anxiety about the future, to the fearful attitude that now dominates us. As rational, productive adults we are called upon to finally overcome this downward trend and to evolve beyond our fears.

Millions died thanks to these murderers. The sheer unrestrained madness of these XXX to slaughter life so easily.

Life is not meant to be extinguished in this manner.

Life is to struggle. To claw our way up the mountain that is progress.

Progress, even if we start from the smallest and lowest of places, is exhilarating. Death was final. Death was the end of all means of progress. What is life if not to constantly make small, incremental changes?

You made me think of this quote: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“See, boy, the better ya understan’ yerself, the kinder you are, usually. Kindness, as in, not compassion.
Compassion’s no virtue, ‘s just blind acceptance. Be a trap, often. Excuse yer failings; ‘s good for babies and kids. Not for older ones, traps ‘em with excuses.
Kindness is real, though. Can say no. It just tryna not break ‘em noses with ‘em noes.”

“I thought the Inquisition takes no sides,” Elizabeth pointed out.
“Your father has made a compelling case as for why keeping you shielded is beneficial for the Federation’s War efforts. The image of impartiality is vital, but small acts can be considered with sufficient incentives. The goal of neutrality is to preserve our power, not squander it.”

“One of the events precipitating the fall of several western nations was the rise of censorship. At some point, several governmental entities believed that more robust laws and regulations around the censoring of information were in order, to keep people in line.
This had the adverse effect, driving those who would be censored deeper into their own hidden corners.
It’s no wonder, then, that these people came out of these spaces as extremists, seeing their own governments as enemies and adversaries.
As it turns out, one cannot censor someone from shooting them in their own home.”

You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?

When you have lost one of those dearest to you, to suffer endless grief is foolish indulgence; to suffer none, inhuman hardness

A man looks upon a god
A benevolent tyrant
He see’s a being that will sentence millions to death
that will trample all in the name of their better
A shackled man looks upon a destroyer
He looks upon a god of decay
And he follows his chains back to his chainers
and spreads words to that of sweet smelling fruit
he does not speak to free himself of chains
he will remain bound
but with a collar instead of a chain
but his chainer’s
they will be broken

Sloth: The Chairman (The Still One)
Gluttony: The Devouring/Hollow One
Envy: The Mirrored One
Wrath: The Burning One
Lust: whichever one comes with the perfume
Greed: the one represented by gold
Pride: The Crowned One

• Tenet, The First : There is no soul or anything resembling it. Man’s consciousness is purely a function of the physical interactions between itsy bitsy thingumajigs in his brain. Women are of course beyond belief.
• Corollary, The First: If we are indeed entirely physical entities, every aspect of us is subject to the vagaries of the environment, and I don’t mean the weather. Even our thoughts, decisions and ideas are a function of the physical state of the brain; which in turn depends on its previous state, and so on…ad infinitum.
  Old Corollary always was a presumptuous kid.
• Corollary, The Second: Physical dependence of mental states eliminates free will and choice. We become automata. The nice thing is that this solves the human/AI debate rather neatly. And neatness isn’t one of the Ten Commandments. Or is it? Maybe it was put into the fine print.
• Corollary, The Third: Lack of choice leads to the trivialisation of all moral and behavioural questions, the negation of all that’s good and bad and an emptiness of tautological dimensions.
• Footnote, The Rescuer: Being a philosopher, I can’t afford to resolve everything in a couple of paragraphs, so I resort to hierachial reductionism…or some such anachronism (notice my fondness for words I can’t pronounce). At a fundamental level, everything can be explained in principle by physical laws, notwithstanding the Uncertainty Principle. Still, one can try to explain stuff at higher hierachial levels. For instance, I can try to explain human behaviour on the basis of behavioural patterns, analogies and edifying assumptions, rather than interactions between neurons in the brain. Phew! For a moment there, I thought I was out of a pastime.

“Volwasenen willen liever done alsof wij het niet snappen waarover zij het hebben.”

“We (can) only trust in our own causes”

“Change is a direction, not a destination.”

Ripples in the fabric of space. A hell of inward-facing teeth, extending to infinity. A tongue that peeled the soul, eyes like apertures into insanity. Slavering planetoids shoved through the eye of a needle. Cracks where a thousand maws closed. A sigh of contentment like thunder in a tiny bowl.
Reality reasserted itself.

Each one of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Most of the activity in society is subconsciously designed to quell the voice crying in the wilderness within you

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure.

Contact. Brief and dim, it was a startled awareness that merely brushed against Felix’s Mind. He reeled. Strange and terrifying facets swirled through him, all encompassing and upending. Nothing made sense. The images clustered and broke apart, fractal patterns that split infinitely in every direction, emotions he had no name for, and images that bled through his thoughts like wounds. All of it thundered in his mind in that brief moment.

For the early Buddhists, karma was non-linear and complex. Other Indian schools believed that karma operated in a simple straight line, with actions from the past influencing the present, and present actions influencing the future. As a result, they saw little room for free will.
Buddhists, however, saw that karma acts in multiple feedback loops, with the present moment being shaped both by past and by present actions; present actions shape not only the future but also the present. Furthermore, present actions need not be determined by past actions. In other words, there is free will, although its range is somewhat dictated by the past.
The nature of this freedom is symbolized in an image used by the early Buddhists: flowing water. Sometimes the flow from the past is so strong that little can be done except to stand fast, but there are also times when the flow is gentle enough to be diverted in almost any direction.
So, instead of promoting resigned powerlessness, the early Buddhist notion of karma focused on the liberating potential of what the mind is doing with every moment. Who you are — what you come from — is not anywhere near as important as the mind’s motives for what it is doing right now.

Step 1—Crawl inside the machine.

Step 2—The screws go tight all around.

Step 3—Cross my heart and hope to die.

Step 4—Stick a needle in your eye.

Can you dream of eternity?
Can you imagine it?
Is imagination (eventually) limitless, if it is, then we should be able to right?

Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”

that unease you feel, that hate you feel to those?, that is your subconsisous screaming to you “i see myself in this! i hate this! so i need to resolve this!”

You are waiting for the revolution? My own began a long time ago! When you will be ready (God, what an endless wait!) I won’t mind going along with you for awhile. But when you stop, I shall continue on my insane and triumphal way toward the great and sublime conquest of the nothing!

“Through feeding on a single kola-fruit a day, my body reached a state of extreme emaciation. Because of eating so little my limbs became like the jointed segments of vine stems or bamboo stems. Because of eating so little my backside became like a camel’s hoof. Because of eating so little the projections on my spine stood forth like corded beads. Because of eating so little my ribs jutted out as gaunt as the crazy rafters of an old roofless barn. Because of eating so little the gleam of my eyes sank far down in their sockets, looking like a gleam of water which has sunk far down in a deep well. Because of eating so little my scalp shrivelled and withered as a green bitter gourd shrivels and withers in the wind and sun. Because of eating so little my belly skin adhered to my backbone; thus if I touched my belly skin I encountered my backbone, and if I touched my backbone I encountered my belly skin. Because of eating so little, if I tried to ease my body by rubbing my limbs with my hands, the hair, rotted at its roots, fell from my body as I rubbed.”

we’re currently disbanding Gentoo Foundation in favor of SPI to reduce the risk of direct financial governance becoming a choke point.

THE VERY FIRST THING I REMEMBER IN MY EARLY CHILDHOOD IS A FLAME, A BLUE FLAME JUMPING OFF A GAS STOVE SOMEBODY LIT…. I WAS THREE YEARS OLD…. I FELT FEAR, REAL FEAR, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE. BUT I REMEMBER IT ALSO LIKE SOME KIND OF ADVENTURE, SOME KIND OF WEIRD JOY, TOO. I GUESS THAT EXPERIENCE TOOK ME SOMEPLACE IN MY HEAD I HADN’T BEEN BEFORE. TO SOME FRONTIER, THE EDGE, MAYBE, OF EVERYTHING POSSIBLE…THE FEAR I HAD WAS ALMOST LIKE AN INVITATION, A CHALLENGE TO GO FORWARD INTO SOMETHING I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT. THAT’S WHERE I THINK MY PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE…STARTED, WITH THAT MOMENT…. IN MY MIND I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED AND THOUGHT SINCE THEN THAT MY MOTION HAD TO BE FORWARD, AWAY FROM THE HEAT OF THAT FLAME.

“Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.”

Don’t go hoard buying. Use what you have first. You will notice that during the year the things you really use will get empty, for these things you can make an exception since they are necessities for your life and it will give you a great idea of the things you really NEED. :)

Also, if something gets broken try to see if you could go a week without it. If you notice you really do use it, then buy a replacement.

I started my no buy this January so I’m already some months on the way. Would love to hear your rules!

effective and efficient without regard to delicate sensibilities

“I have not been dominated by the Dominant Idea of my Age; I have chosen mine own allegiance, and served it. I have proved by a lifetime that there is that in man which saves him from the absolute tyranny of Circumstance, which in the end conquers and remolds Circumstance, the immortal fire of Individual Will, which is the salvation of the Future.”

Life is like floating down a river.

We may move along with the river’s current, or we may “try” to fight the river’s current, but we are never “not” in the river.

Even when we “think” we are fighting the current, we are still flowing the current, because the current, the flow, is bigger than we are.

It is less about “whether” we will flow with the river or not, and more about “how” we will flow with the river.

Consider a surfer.

Once he catches a wave he’s going towards the shore whether he likes it or not.

Whether the surfer is going to the shore, or not, is not the question.

The question is, will he do so, gracefully, smoothly, and in accord with the wave, or will he be tossed, tumbled and crashed into the rocks?

It’s not about whether we are moving with the flow, or not. We are always moving with the flow.

It’s about how we will do so.

“Mater artium necessitas; the mother of invention is necessity.”

1 find common ground
2 show interest
3 seize weakness

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”

That’s the pain problem with AI. It all sounds good on first scan, because it’s verbose and well-written text. But the content doesn’t make much sense if you read slowly and think about it.

A sage gets punched in the face. The sage responds: “Please show me my mistake that I am blind to, so that I can correct it or try to make up for it.”

“The signs of one who is making progress are that he criticizes no one, praises no one, blames or accuses no one”—Epictetus, E48.2
“If you wish it, you are free; if you wish it, you’ll find fault with no one, you’ll cast blame on no one”—Epictetus, D1.17.28

Yep, experiences and relationships. Reality is more like a complex web of interconnected processes rather than some 3D world with separate selves and objects. It becomes glaringly obvious the more you practice mindfulness meditation Even quantum physics pointed this out with wave particle duality. Particles look like something solid but upon further analysis you find they are very slippery, you can’t quite pinpoint them

do not go gentle into that good night

because im young arrogant and hate everything you stand for

Such carelessness breaks one of the cardinal rules of keeping a low profile; never commit more than one crime at a time

Renzo, and most other individualists, admit that individualist anarchists and egoists will never be anything but a small minority of people. Because embracing truth and authenticity requires admitting all of the frameworks of morality, justice, solidarity, right and wrong, etc. you were raised with are all relative and made up. And that’s terrifying!

Anarchism, which is the natural liberty of the individual freed from the odious yoke of spiritual and material rulers, is not the construction of a new and suffocating society.’ It is a decisive fight against all societies-christian, democratic, socialist, communist, etc., etc.

Aim to be someome children look up to.
’?’
Why would i do that? That seems boring.

Anarchism is the eternal struggle of a small minority of aristocratic outsiders against all societies which follow one another on the stage of history.”

The fall of our footsteps ringeth too hollow through their streets. And just as at night, when they are in bed and hear a man abroad long before sunrise, so they ask themselves concerning us: Where goeth the thief? Go not to men, but stay in the forest! Go rather to the animals! Why not be like mea bear amongst bears, a bird amongst birds?” “And what doeth the saint in the forest?” asked Zarathustra. The saint answered: “I make hymns and sing them; and in making hymns I laugh and weep and mumble: thus do I praise God. With singing, weeping, laughing, and mumbling do I praise the God who is my God.”

‘If a behavior is insufficient in any of the four stages, it will not become a habit, Eliminate the cue and your habit will never start.
Reduce the craving and you won’t experience enough motivation to act.
Make the behavior difficult and you won’t be able to do it.
And if the reward fails to satisfy your desire, then you’ll have no reason to do it again in the future.
Without all four, a behavior will not be repeated.’
Cue, craving, response and reward

Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will wander, with their wild & virgin thoughts - they who cannot live without planning ever new and dreadful outbursts of rebellion! I shall be among them!

We are treating the symptoms, not the cause. we need to find the origin of what went wrong/is going wrong and improve/cure/understand it. to be better

grants skills related to alchemy, persuasion, manipulation, and religious practices. No matter the labels, no matter the definitions, you shall continue to further the goals of the Malefic Viper while grasping all the power you possibly can along the way.

There are two kinds of survivalists: the enthusiasts, who only wish to participate in a hobby that could well save their lives later, and the true survivalists, those who wish to abandon the shackles that society has placed around their necks.

Wherein Twilight learns, to her dismay,
the limits to which logic will carry unpopular arguments,
and makes plans to further educate herself

Power was not loyalty. Magic was not worship. Faith could be wielded like any other blade, or abandoned when its edge dulled.

“A smart pony learns from her mistakes.
A wise pony learns from the mistakes of others.
A desperate pony invents entirely new and fascinating mistakes.”

“She now sought not only to broaden her horizons with classical education but also absorbed everything that happened in her fantasy stories”

All Choices Have Consequences, and they can be averted

“Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.”

“The most effective way to change your habits is to focus not on what you want to achieve, but on who you wish to become.”

“for her mediocrity wasn’t failure. It was betrayal”

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.”

“Your identity emerges out of your habits. Every action is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”

Not all HEROES/THRESHOLDERS/TRANSCENDENTS have a gimmick, but nearly all of them do. These sometimes form from necessity or preference. A adopting a certain kind of weaponry might specialize in that. Others prefer taking a certain role, and will purchase equipment according to that. Still others will find a theme and, over time, will push and develop that to its sometimes illogical extreme.

“School is trying to teach you how to be average and conform to the social norm, Don’t listen to everything, reject the stupid rules, and follow/create your own path”

“Keep your inner child alive.”

“Listen to the child inside of you, but don’t always follow it”

“Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.”

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“Despite everything, your still you.”

“And I sat pondering at the edge of a timeless sea. Pondering at what’s left of me.
Pondering, Is it truly me?”

oh woe, those who try to find themselves, do you not release how stupid that is? have you tried seeing in the future? ofc not idiot. you plan for it, you build it, you are your own architect, what architect tries to find the fucking blueprint?? no!, he creates it! you disillusioned man, i hope you learn too see.

“Born too late to explore the Earth and Too early to explore the stars.”

Point. Buy. Kill some xenos, fill your supply! Bam, bam, the counter’s a trap Click clack, new gear in yo’ lap Rinse, repeat, climb so high! Lyrical extract from Point. Buy., Gun and Done’s best selling rap single of 2043

“Truth in lies, lies in truth.”

“But people don’t always know what’s good for them.”

Who I once was Is not who I am now, do not hold on to things you are not anymore for it is in my nature to always change, this does not always happen on the same scale but however you change it is still important.

masquerade protocol; Contingency Bleak INITIATED

I called it an ‘impotent mustache,’ Cranston told GQ. “And I know how to shape an impotent mustache, if anyone’s interested. If a mustache drops below the creases of the lips, no, that gets bada**. That gets nasty. So you have to make sure it’s always above the crease of the lips. And you thin it out, so you can see skin underneath it. And it doesn’t look as masculine. It just seems, ‘What’s the point?

“The pursuit of happiness does not always equate the pursuit of freedom. the pursuit of hapiness is not always the same as hedonism”

“Do not get trapped in your own head.”

“The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.”

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”

“Carpe diem! Just…don’t pluck too hard. Don’t want the universe to unravel.”

“Don’t trust the government, to hold the individual interest in mind”

What separates those who go under and those who rise above adversity is the strength of their will and their hunger for power.

“Ask a question. Do research. Form a hypothesis. Test that hypothesis. Analyze the data. Draw a conclusion. Repeat.”

“Once you give governments power, They don’t give it back.”

I teach you the Superman, Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? What havve ye done to surpass your origin? What have ye done to surpass yourself?

A bird that likes comfy and happy things, and also knives. Once ate a god’s eye and awakened the ability to see all that is good in the world. Known to steal shiny ideas and baubles. Currently forbidden from writing his own bios.

“Nothing is to be taken seriously on the internet”

“Do not take everything serious on the internet.”

“Investigate the origin and than make your opinion”

“One small step for men, one giant leap for mankind.”

“If i want something done right, i have to do it yourself”

Little fingers cradle a frame, little eyes stare silently at the screen. Little knees pulled to her chest, little girl’s tears flow no more, long dry. Her parents lie dead not far, father’s hand dropped his ax, mother’s hand dropped her knife. Five mangled bodies slashed and sliced lie there too, gruesome maws wide open, butcher’s grimace. Her brother bleeds weakly, his pistol droops to the ground, his eyes unfocused, thoughts grow faint. The pictures on the screen move and tell a story, of many dead people and more dead creatures. She watches her sister fight and watches her die, impaled on spears of bone and claw. She watches as a switch falls from her sister’s hands and fire swallows all.

“I would rather die chasing my dream then die of old age with (silent) regret”

a certain kind of madness balancing fortitude and near maniacal drive

“They create a bogus study which they publish in a serious-sounding science magazine owned by a for-profit university with a grand name like Anthropological University of Pennsylvania or the like. Website A publishes an outrageous article citing this study, then website B picks up the story, quoting website A. Website C does the same quoting website B… and then website A quotes website C as source. Now, all the clickbait articles dangled under the nose of viewers come with a list of apparently reliable sources. Of course, they control every organism involved from the start. It’s just a ploy…”

Quantum immortality, the desperate belief. how sad

“Pain is the hammer, it can forge you but it can also destroy you”

“pain = greater gains but also bigger risk”

“I think, therefore I am” better =” i am my own”

• underlying system determines a large part of success.

If you must acknowledge my departure, here’s how I want you to do it: Don’t worry about the fucking internet. Eat, drink, be merry. Love your spouses. Play with your children. Run wild beneath the sun with your dogs. Let your cats curl up in your laps. Sing and dance skyclad beneath the moon and stars. Indulge in public fornication. Destroy your idols. Burn the churches down. Raze every prison to the ground. Smash the state. Seize the means of production. Shout at the Devil, curse God, and live free

The eye hummed. It was a sweet sound that Felix couldn’t stand. It thundered across the horizon like a whale call, slipping through him like a sharp, freezing gale. His Aspects resonated with it, turning every piece of Felix on edge as metal drawn against metal. He convulsed, tossed back onto his knees.

You Are Worthy.

The eye blinked and was gone.

You Have Completed A Hidden Quest!

Earn Etrionn’s Approval

The Great Beast of a distant land has approved of your judgment and has granted you Authority over its remains! Weep, for it was the last of its kind. Rejoice, for all things must end so others may start anew.

References/Inspiration

[A Brief Guide to Keeping a Commonplace Book – Notebook of Ghosts](https://notebookofghosts.com/2018/02/25/a-brief-guide-to-keeping-a-commonplace-book/
How to Start a Commonplace Book — Miranda’s Notebook
A Simple Guide to Keeping a Commonplace Book