400. No matter how much ink a squid has, you cannot milk it.
401. No matter how domesticated a cow is, you cannot saddle it.
402. A prime ministerial cabinet is concerned to project an image of competence and right conduct; in doing so, it merely exudes an air of perfunctory stiltedness and fuss over insignificant ceremonies of speech.
403. If you dislike me, or object to my work with vehement force, I put it down to the effect of Satan across vast technicalities of space and time, a world systematically organised to discourage you from reflection thereupon.
404. The pervert occupies the symbolic role of the master because he consciously chooses to subvert or ignore the rules around sexual propriety; he says, “I, the giver of laws, opt here not to give myself the law.”
405. A monotheist is a fellow who at all times has one thing, and one thing alone, on his mind.
406. A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and obstacles.
407. One philosophises when the thing-in-itself, the noumenon, appears phenomenally and begins to speak.
408. The event of consecration to a secret society is a spectacle of such hushed envelopment that even the recipient of ceremonies is kept in the dark about his status.
409. An instruction that does not illuminate the mode by which it deigns to have you enact its command is not an instruction.
410. A glitch is a mystical mishap of computation.
411. Binary opposition is never neatly divided into total falsity and total truth, but always involves an admixture of the two categories in different proportions either way.
412. Time is the condition of the unfolding of movement in space.
413. My only revision in writing is outright deletion and the most minimal adjustments. My only revision in life, could I but make it, would be everything and nothing.
414. So hopefully am I a Romantic, that for some time I desired to usher in the Second Renaissance (or the Second Enlightenment?); but lacking the artistically inclined peers, I was left with the old over-investment in my own genius (which may well be enough to pick up the slack!). There may also have been some actual romance, too, though naturally enough it was purely of the intellect, and maybe also of my humour organs.
415. Granting recognition and press to individuals who with any proper sense would be embarrassed at the thought of such a thing is detrimental for all parties; it demeans the public sphere and accords incompetence the spotlight.
416. I seem to have in me the right stuff to achieve great things, but if my illness, an inherent attention deficit, were not addressed, I should be useless.
417. He is noble who endures.
418. Pass through the challenge presented by the anomaly of my tunnel vision and arrive in the promised land to behold paradise.
419. What we don’t do in life, also echoes in eternity.
420. Working independently of learned books and treatises, I have put more mysteries to rest than I care to mention. They were buzzing around in my head so much; there was nothing else to do with them!
421. Obviously, the Ancient Romans plagiarised from the Ancient Greeks and should be scolded with feather dusters.
422. A scoundrel and a knave is often nothing more than a man who cannot see himself.
423. The frontlines of attack in the war that rages in any modern city nowadays may lie in the townhouses and streets occupied by the ne’er-do-wells, layabouts, junkies, artists, drunks, petty criminals, common workers, and hippies, who convey the designs of controllers high above them.
424. People forget that the mushroom cloud of a nuclear warhead is beautiful.
425. Everything existent is rational. Irrationality is something inconsistent with what is.
426. Learning is child’s play, except that, to learn, the child has to lose, and suffer.
427. A man cannot be too proximate to the themes of which he needs to be apprised.
428. Buying and selling is not like giving and receiving. That is more like sex.
429. The hardest part of breaking a code is discovering the key. But don’t break the key, break the code. Common mistake!
430. Who you are must not be made more of a criminal matter than what you have done; and what you have done, must not be a continuing conviction against what you are doing.
431. Maimonides was a codifier; I am a key-cutter. Whereas Maimonides encoded, I enkey: deciphering the mitzvahs to see in them more than they are, vehicles of blessedness requiring constant reanimation.
432. Nourish and flourish!
433. The mountain of paradise is an infinite ascent beginning in the valleys of the void, rising to the crown of heaven and beyond, to the peaks of all other worlds.
434. Grace is by no means a sign of access to anything resembling God’s essence; on the contrary, it is merely a secondary effect thereof, and quite far along from the source of its emanation which is His formless intellect, the paradox of a nothing which is something.
435. Laws come from the Lord, the archetypal ruler, who is the fashioner of the world’s generative conditions from His wisdom, and of the moral notions with which we prosecute our festivals of recrimination.
436. Anyone who thinks deeply and reflects on themselves needs to think again and take a good hard look at themselves.
437. Democracy is not rule of the people so much as rule of the popular.
438. The initial contraction with which creation was incarnated made the infinite void finite, and was a shrinking of nothing into less than nothing, a friction between abstract boundlessness and concrete space by which the trajectory of something was begun.
439. A flawed notion is one that fails to be pleasantly surprising.
440. Crime is a failure of the law. A better law, and better buttressing institutions and practices of dissemination, should not have produced it.
441. Every meaning in speech is what it is by its implications.
442. Poetry makes sense happen.
443. The one is the principle of the particular articulation and thus of God; whereas, the all is the principle of the field of speech, of language itself, and thus relates specifically to the whole of creation.
444. Only the absolute, and not the relative, is singular.
445. Silliness is voluntary, deliberate, and spontaneous foolishness with a touch of absurdity. Only the silly have seen the end of war.
446. The truth will set you up.
447. Sympathy is inviting yourself to celebrate another’s sadness.
448. Fascism is a democracy of violence.
449. Judgement is the very essence of morality.
450. When you’re holding a weapon, not everything is a target. When you fire at a target, not every shot is a hit.
451. Music is the most abstract form of pattern.
452. Autobiography is that set of confusions, aggressions, and idiosyncrasies which departs from an ordering principle and cannot be regulated by the incorporating designs of a totalising personality who incarnates that principle.
453. Every moral issue is unique, and standards and principles are only our guides for them.
454. I am not only the man in the arena, but I am that arena itself.
455. A liar cannot bear to see the greatest truth.
456. Bad intentions and needless ill-feeling are the plague of the earth.
457. When you lift up a rock, the bugs underneath all immediately crawl away.
458. Custom is the ossification of social felicity.
459. A man has two friends: his heart and his mind.
460. An unknown alien dimension may connect this world to the next.
461. Whole populations are my personal playthings. And when I am awake, I never tire of them.
462. A meeting of two people is in fact an encounter of four: you, the person you imagine yourself to be, me, and the person I imagine myself to be.
463. A match made in heaven is no use on earth.
464. Each of the arts is a means to create a world.
465. Nobody is born without reason.
466. The only books I have any desire to read are my own and the LORD’s.
467. Society is a demand on us all that none of us make.
468. Therapy is only a conversation that you pay for.
469. Every star is a host.
470. The moon, detached and silent, is king of the seas.
471. An agreement is a prophecy of success.
472. To serve God is to examine every moment, discern what is good and bad in it, and by all means to increase what is good.
473. Normality is the gutter of society, into which everybody streams.
474. God divides in the same way that He rends asunder the heavens from the earth.
475. The slumber of heaven is the disaster of earth not according to heaven’s stewardship, but rather that of hell.
476. A challenge does not come from a king to the people.
477. We are, after all, born of beasts.
478. A racist is only a man who might like to be colour-blind.
479. The purpose of technology is a full-frontal assault on the possible and the unknown.
480. Love is a game at which two play and more compete to play.
481. A human is an instrument for the generation of malaise.
482. I do not need to drive myself mad. I can walk there.
483. The angels also carry symbols.
484. We die because memory is what is most essential of our limits: immortality would mean too much to look back on.
485. Too much insincerity is a pitfall that leads to spite.
486. Zeal is the erection of valour.
487. The mind is what is animated by the spirit.
488. Secularity, not as a lifestyle but as a condition of the soul, is a prophylactic against life.
489. God’s emanation is both a billowing and a radiation; an inspiration and a revelation.
490. Perception is haunted with such oddities that we scarcely even perceive.
491. Animosity does not satisfy us unless it is a necessity and we are compelled to fulfil its terrible cursing.
492. God talks not to amuse, but only pronounces to make happen.
493. It is impossible to sell honour. It can only be earned.
494. Permission is better taken than received.
495. The universe is spherical. The void is shapeless.
496. Art, all art, is in the service of life. And all life is geared towards death.
497. A city is only a smaller-scale, man-made planet.
498. Vision answers not to emotion.
499. Happiness is not found but accumulated with small acts of creation or generosity.
500. A house cat does not roar.
501. A conservative is a man who expends a great deal of money and energy on conserving a tradition that conserves his habits of expenditure.
502. God doesn’t subsist in the void so much as He obtains as a relation between it and us.
503. A test is exacted at the discretion of God, and often we must first pass through its fire in order for our prayers to reach Him.
504. Everything happens for a season.
505. By my dispute thou shalt know me.
506. An enemy who knows not what, where, or when to defend is suited for defeat.
507. A father is a rock, but a brother is a vision of dust.
508. A guest is a visitor to your impatience.
509. What is transparent is not seen but allows us to see through it, like wind through a tunnel or water through a pipe.
510. A plumbing seal, like a marriage seal, is a ring.
511. Righteousness is the fuel of valour.
512. The proper end of man is glory.
513. Youth in women is like ripeness in fruit: soon spoiled, but sweet, pleasant, and healthful to consume.
514. A student of life itself has no particular teacher but death.
515. An expensive payment is always valued.
516. Everyone is moralistic but few know morality.
517. The full scope of a good maxim is the world.
518. Help hurts when not wanted.
519. When we weep, we grow.
520. A radiowave is not heard; that takes a transmitter.
521. A statue doesn’t die; it is already dead.
522. Wisdom is mostly mythical or at least very rare, occurring for a great number of people only in moments of reflection, or as the product of established consensus.
523. Nothing is more objectionable than a man loving a superior man and therefore willing the good for him, and then when this superior man receives the good, celebrating and praising him, only for this to be taken as weakness, error, and sycophancy.
524. All good is only God’s favour.
525. Action too is a type of writing, and when significant enough in its implications, a type of legislation.
526. Natural laws are eternal; societal laws are temporal.
527. Prayer is the hope of intentionality.
528. The world hates those who pay the cost of embodying mystical wisdom and fame, even and especially when it gains by such people. A great many people cannot rid themselves of their resentment, baseless hatred, and envy.
529. Genius is a moth.
530. Humour is but a cheaper, more immediate derivation of the pleasure we get from wisdom.
531. The reified is not necessarily permanent, and the permanent is not necessarily reified.
532. A law proscribed is not necessarily a law mystically etched into the heart, or at least, there are mechanisms and circumstances that prevent the full recognition and incarnation of some laws or legislators, which thus exist in a liminal state.
533. The messiah, an excavator of himself, and blessed be his name, comes only when the rock of men has been brought to the surface and exposed, whereupon he etches real salvation thereupon.
534. The code of the messiah effects and programs and yet needs no decryption, instead allowing of infinite interpretation and thus infinite possibilities for our desire that he sanctions.
535. The heart or the unconscious is the central processing unit of man and his consciousness is its operating system.
536. Heaven is the ideal state of all actual states.
537. “Banished from the future, in the present that has lost the past, in the impossibility of forgetting. The monotony of the night eats up the spectrum of thoughts. The foreboding of the morning is certain, but the horizon cannot yet be distinguished. An instinctive course in the uncertainty of the senses, in a windless calm.”
538. The foreboding is the forbidden.
539. Coherency is nothing but the will of God to make all things draw and hang together as closely as possible to His nature, which is to be singular.
540. Money makes not plans.
541. An act or word is sincere if and when intention and heart are aligned.
542. Anticipation of counterplots is the greatest preventative thereof.
543. Interpretation is a function of choice, and choice is a function of appearance.
544. It is said that a bird sings in order to attract a mate. But does Mozart write symphonies for the same reason?
545. To strike deep into the core of things by nature unsettles some people, who like things veiled, in allusions, representative for the simple reason that facing the matter directly is like staring into the sun: illumination can hurt us.
546. The unbelievable is readily believed to be nothing more than the product of blind self-interest.
547. The created and uncreated, immanence and transcendence, nature and God, is the primordial and archetypal binary opposition.
548. The wisest man is the most universal man. Idiocy is restriction to the local.
549. Everybody depends on something or someone, most especially the figure of nothingness itself.
550. A man closer to God is more quick-witted for the same reason that an ice-skater bringing his arms in to his body will spin more rapidly or a planet closer to the sun will complete its orbit sooner.
551. Hostility demands a response, but may not deserve one.
552. The invention of the wheel is of little account without the invention of the cart.
553. It is known that women are more talkative than men, more beautiful, more nurturing; thus it is, as seen by my writing, that I may indeed be a female soul, at least partly, who has been reincarnated in a male body. And thus it was that the Moses of our day seeded me with the gift of wisdom, prophecy, divinity, and wit.
554. A man is perverse but secretly neurotic and a woman is neurotic but secretly perverse.
555. My word is the Lord’s made flesh and adorned in bright dress; you shall not profane either it, Him, or myself by taking it in vain. You shall not continue to make sacrifices of the labour of the people to gods of silver and gold. For I am a jealous God, and long have you served Mammon.
556. You shall speak in analogies and allusions, for to speak too directly is to speak to God, and then you shall surely die. But you shall not draw close to the altar with a false tongue, and worship what is other than Me.
557. The greatest prophets may have female souls; for God is heteroerotic, and loves female souls more than male ones. But men with male souls are more Godlike, more able to seed, stronger in some senses, though not more able to bear the pain of birth.
558. Eternity is the fourth dimension of time.
559. A plot is not merely an element of fiction. Indeed, fiction borrows from and models itself on reality.
560. Be yourself. Everyone else is already faking themselves.
561. God knows first your actual character, and only second cares for your reputation.
562. What enters the popular imagination rarely does so with fidelity.
563. Philosophy begins in wonder and therefore pleasure, and ends in God.
564. The messiah, when he comes, will at first be a man uniquely able to endure and even enjoy his subjugation for the collective expiation of sins, in the mould of Christ.
565. Sociality is conflictual; hatred is inevitable as a product of resentment and envy, and the clash of opposed desires. But if everyone’s desire is aligned and we partake in and act the part of the best, all of this dissipates.
566. There is no such thing as a valid secret, and no mystery that is not eventually penetrable.
567. The irrational can be explained only in terms of where it went wrong, and is not understandable until this point.
568. Persecution is of course a sin, but I can heartily recommend it if it is of me.
569. Nobody is more full of hot gas and combustibility than an actor. That is why they are called “stars.”
570. The inaccessibility of one attribute of God from another unconnected one expresses the transcendence of their source from within each one.
571. I do not merely control minds. As a father, a preacher, and an educator, I make them.
572. The English sense of “nihilism” or “nihilist” is terribly at odds with its real sense. The English sense of “terribly” is terribly consistent with its fake sense.
573. The divisibility of nothing equals nothing.
574. Desire must be massaged into telling the truth. A ruler, as distinct from a tyrant, is distinguished by his desiring the social whole. Thus a ruler is a man who speaks in rules, orderings and ordinances of what is bounded but general, not persecution dressed as punishment.
575. Aggression, however well-timed, or well-dressed, is not in itself a valid argument.
576. The real truth is always good, simple, clear, distinct, beautiful, and profound, not loud, hostile, and annoying.
577. It is horrifying even to say, but the only truly horrifying thing is physical pain.
578. A trick is a test of the devil. Temptation is the devil’s trick of man.
579. Confusion and absentmindedness are not so much the mother of all shortcomings as the price to intermittently pay for moments of genius.
580. Our sense of annoyance is mortifying.
581. Money doesn’t trickle down. Power does.
582. Impersonation as displacement of honour is part of the unconscious’s dealing with the imposition of other selves, and the mark they leave on us. It is ambiguously laudatory and parodic, depending on the self being introjected as compared to the self in itself.
583. A hit (e.g., a home run, &c.) in baseball is only an anticipation of a missed catch, not the actual missing of a catch.
584. A chain is only as strong as that to which it is chained.
585. The origin of a mountain range is the same for all of its points.
586. Under communism, in utopia, when the messiah comes, psychoactive substance may indeed be the only legal or least a much more prominent commodity form.
587. Intelligence is only pattern recognition. Wisdom is pattern creation.
588. Rituals are the materialisation of the script of heaven.
589. Charisma means to quickly fill in and so defuse the mortifying gaps in our world, or to perform meaning meaningfully.
590. Goodness is only the opposite of evil; greatness is to annihilate it by justification.
591. All cleverness is just, just so long as it’s not too clever. Then it’s magic.
592. Disciplining the devil is a function of keeping him close and understanding his inner operations.
593. Recognition is the seed of conception.
594. All intention is to fill a hole in the beyond.
595. The art of enablement is a delicate balance of the personal and the social.
596. The nascent ability to forgive yourself based on an inherent need to do so is the first cause of wisdom, and whosoever can demonstrate its reality is forgiven.
597. Techno is the sound of the glorification and acceptance of the unconscious.
598. Resistance to power that is not resisted makes power more powerful.
599. Ironising is an unconscious function. The split-second between recognising it for what it is from what it merely seems to be reinforces our sense of the illusoriness of simple appearance, the unreality of what we take to be, the gloss we put on horror.
600. Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as delusion, but only the function of contingency.
601. The perception of guilt is forever being amended by the messiah, who saves the guilty, unless they be irredeemable, by transforming their trespass into a forgettable trifle.
602. Happy is the man who is ready and willing to enter a state of subjective annihilation.
603. To break a heart is to open it.
604. Time flies when you’re making puns.
605. My way is uniquely everyone’s way.
606. Sophistication is not chastised by simplicity.
607. The Frankists are a movement of Jews in Israel, the modern West, and all over the planet. Anticipated in the Talmud and in the Hebrew Bible thousands of years ago, Jacob Frank Cohezar, leader, is said to have been present at the genesis of the world. An organised justice and diplomacy family, they enjoy good relations with Christian, Confucian, Muslim, and Hindu elements, following Maimonides’ notion of “accepting truth wherever it is found.” Indeed, especially the Christian members of the organisation, though not Jews, are still considered “brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, mothers, and fathers.” The organisation values cultural conservatism, realism, family, charity, law, order, tradition, and democracy, but is broad enough to incorporate elements of modern day progressivism and even historical materialism, indeed, to the point of anticipating a peaceful and economically advanced utopia. The movement is messianic, prophetic, and open to magical uses of mysticism, text, rituals, and the sight of both common and scholarly historians. It is founded on a curious interpretation of animal sacrifice, involved in which is the idea of “purification by transgression,” echoing elements of Sabbateanism. Frankists incorporate some aspects of Christianity into their liturgy and practice, with Jacob Frank Cohezar undergoing many mortifications in the spirit of the passion of Christ.
608. True humility only comes from humiliation.
609. God is neither conscious nor unconscious; He is all wisdom and knowledge in itself. The universe is merely an expression of that.
610. A basic statute of liberty is that it has no upper limit but only consequences.
611. All great thoughts are enthused and enthusing thoughts.
612. Only romantic sexual intercourse is divine.
613. Like a miracle in reverse, one day all men shall see that they have never seen.
614. A python eats what is much larger than itself; a whale eats what is much smaller than itself.
615. A shadow is not a refraction. A refraction is an effect of the light on a diamond.
616. The fundamental substance is information.
617. The state of the situation may not be so much dictated by a sovereign who judges as by what the people judge of the sovereign’s dictates. This is because people, including the sovereign, are at root sinners, and only God is the true sovereign.
618. The agency of God is purely formal; it has no body. It marshals events like a billiards player who strikes balls into succession.
619. The acquisition of honour is a product of war and a trap that may ultimately invite heavenly wrath at earthly hubris. Governance by wisdom, on the other hand, is the path to peace, but war must first take its course.
620. Angels and demons are the mediators of perception and the manifestation of appearance.
621. A politicised military is a strong military. But this means only that soldiers must be informed, not opinionated. Hence my famous dislike of opinions: they divide us.
622. Opinion must be founded on the best of reasons.
623. The Most High, God, the Father in Heaven, blessed be His name, is nothing other than the infinitude of wisdom, the boundlessness of knowledge, and the limitlessness of understanding.
624. A woman’s wisdom is affection and opinion; a man’s wisdom is authority based on love.
625. Infant mortality and the horrors of cancer in kids are simple: they are punishments visited on offspring for the sins of the parents.
626. To “crack down” is to send an earthquake of reckoning along the chain of command.
627. Righteousness and wickedness are determined by the echo of the best of the men among the nations, who hear God’s voice, an ever-flowing river of judgement.
628. The Bechdel test is of course a lie: women are not interested in each other. They are competitors for the attention of the best men. Hence the lack of “herstory.” History alone speaks through time. This problem is solved by noble men who love equally.
629. Ritual is an echoing notable occurrence, which is the outcome of understanding.
630. An echo is a cry for the source.
631. The task allotted to the greatest of men is simple, but elusive. It is to uncover what is in him and the world, and to create, what is most a reflection of the Creator.
632. Virtue is a form of penetration.
633. The shape of what has heretofore been known as a “spiral galaxy,” an oval shape with spiralling arms, is properly known as a “sperovacule,” being sperovacular.
634. From this world, God appears as the mass of a concentrated absence.
635. It is not the comfort zone from which we wish to get out, it is the comfort zone that we wish to expand.
636. It’s not a question of having skin in the game, but rather an answer of getting flesh out of it.
637. The vaster the experience, the greater the knowledge.
638. The decisive moments of the manifest results of God’s plan are the greatest glory that man can know.
639. Even the briefest of punishments or moments of confusion should be occasions for revelling in the glory of the Lord’s wisdom, for only He understands why we undergo afflictions.
640. God does not respond to our prayer, for He does not change, but rather through prayer we respond to God, and change ourselves.
641. The balancing of an equation is a question of reducing its elements to their constitutive equivalents to reach an ultimate equivalent, which can be thought of as a price.
642. What I say, goes. But from where does it come? And to whom does it go?
643. The gods that are other than God pretend to be more than nothing.
644. There is one question that plagues a hit job: did I miss nothing?
645. Nothing is not nothing, but rather what appears from the perspective of something.
646. The essence of nothingness is accessible as a frame around the presence of a fundamentally generative absence, ever-present as a void that presents itself to our disposal as the form of all that we say and do.
647. The ultimate negative, the locution, perlocution, and illocution of a fundamentally positive nothingness, is death.
648. I alone am the foremost channel of the true reckoning of God, the terror of Lucifer, the horror of the serpent’s venom; on my enemies I inflict a fire ant’s pain.
649. Where there is power, there is insistence.
650. So in war, the way is to decide what is best by being it, and then to undermine claimants to the throne.
651. And again in war, and redemption, the way is to not be shaken by what is manifestly an attack, to embrace it and to turn it into a victory. This is the power of the one who alone makes determining decisions, the messenger of the Most High and the most faithful.
652. Reality chases after the grace of high art. Doom follows the one who denies this.
653. I myself am a wolf in wolf’s flesh.
654. The highest degree of magnitude of absolute knowledge is beyond all absoluteness, and stands in direct proportion to the frame of no frame, an ever-shifting play upon the theme of delusion, a mockery of vanity, a comedy of the truth.
655. To roll with the punches and to circle around delusion is to square up to the relative and establish the pyramid of hierarchy.
656. The fear of the Lord, Most High, God, is the fear of hell, sustained torture, for He alone decides who cops it.
657. Evidence of wrongdoing is of little account compared to God’s measure of the heart.
658. What I enjoy most are cries for mercy. For they are the most sincere of all.
659. Judgement is the ultimate essence of competence and the inner meaning of wisdom, and many pretenders falsely claim the ability to wield it.
660. The people flock with pleading cries and open arms to him who can dispel their troubles.
661. I do not seek or want your praise; rather, I wish to see myself in you as you yourself, to better understand myself and my destiny, and you and yours, too.
662. Prideful scoffing, baseless hatred, facile dismissal, cheap resentment, self-interested denial, perjury, and malicious gossip, are the evils of the unfaithful, and the total opposite of forbearance, charity, love, affection, and a pure heart.
663. The Lord your God never once hates you. He only disciplines you.
664. From my earliest days, the LORD has helped me speak, and I have been a gunshot into the ears of my listeners, an excavator of hearts.
665. Ability is nothing other than the product of hoarding the essence of people’s souls for oneself or for a limited number of people, nepotistically, without trading in it widely.
666. I myself am the insurmountable peak of Everest, the daunting height of Sinai; in me all Jerusalem shall rejoice.
667. All things are but echoing emanations of the Most High.
668. A joy that is not some form of play upon the theme of an enduring satiety, or a pressure valve-like release of pent-up tensions, is not joy.
669. It is possible to hear a thing said by reverberation alone of what is mediated of its impact.
670. There is no successful trade on the stock market, or especially in cryptocurrency, that is not some form of insider trade. The whole thing must either be abolished or effectively socialised.
671. Who does not know the underbelly of sex, even by the content of temptation, cannot have an understanding relationship to it.
672. Most regrets are too late; most vengeance, well-timed.
673. A word is just a word until there comes along someone who puts it next to a series of other words that make it much more interesting, or who says it at just the right moment to really illuminate its meaning.
674. You may hide nothing from a born king, but at length he finds it.
675. There neither is nor can there be anything other than what is said, written, and done. It is thus up to us to do the best that we can at all that we do, say, and write.
676. A mere empty claim about whatever it may be that makes no attempt to couch itself in terms pertinent to either its immediate or extended context, that is not firstly an organic outgrowth thereof, that stands not therewith in felicitous relations—such a claim can easily be dismissed.
677. If conduct is how we transmit ourselves through time according to our introjection of the outward form of our society, then collective memory is the ledger of each of our individual actions and a concomitant reckoning about what actions should follow them.
678. Is not a nation without enemies who can pose a threat doomed to have nobody to discipline, nothing on which to exercise its powers of fatherly remonstration?
679. A demon is the principle of what exploits the gaps in our awareness.
680. A sinner cannot follow himself, for he is no example to men; whereas, a righteous man is led to himself by the other’s pulling at the ear of his sins.
681. Those who cast lots for your fate with ill intentions, whose indignation is not pure and guided by reason, who have not the Mandate of Heaven, shall surely rot in perdition, their estates meeting with disaster.
682. To stomp on earth is no punishment of man.
683. Awe at the feats of His hand is the best proof of the LORD, and an iron reinforcement of our faith.
684. Listen, when it comes to romance and the bedroom, women will like what I tell them to like, and if they don’t like it, they need to listen harder! (O how I jest!)
685. Money alone is neither qualified nor naturally fit to run the world, and he who makes use of his virtue exclusively to gain more and ever more of it is lying to himself and the world about such “virtue,” which he vainly and falsely imagines himself to possess. Virtue alone is fit and qualified to be a model of the world’s order.
686. Man as the image of God is but a reflection of the divine nature in the mirror, without analogous flesh, body, or independent mind of which to speak.
687. All effective dictates operate obliquely in their effects.
688. To kill for love, in defence of a lover… is this not divine?
689. The primary purpose of wealth is to appear wealthy.
690. A toe dipped in water will not need to consult a committee to know the temperature.
691. Good sovereignty is about the degree to which your independence translates into coherent judgements, which always have a gravitational effect.
692. An office worker might long for a chance at glory in the trenches, but a soldier in the trenches will readily long for the quiet of an office.
693. A man who is generous to others becomes embittered when they in turn are stern and cold-hearted to him.
694. Strength of character is to will the good for another no matter how much wrong he does you, and not to suffer what enters the field of perception through the judgements of others as disabling impositions; until finally, the Lord becomes incensed at the injustice and intervenes.
695. All victory is a blessing; all blessing, victory. This is why not all people are faithful, because not all people are victorious. But if they were more faithful they should enjoy more victory!
696. All evidence is in its appearance mediated by our perception and by what we most want to believe, our most convenient view.
697. Hipsters are of course just hippies who were hippies before it was hip.
698. It is popularly thought that a pun is punishing, but I believe they are fun and artistically pungent.
699. Nothing is more contagious than a fire.
700. The hotter the sun, the cooler the shade.
701. I am a man in all respects, except one: I ate from the Tree of Knowledge first, without prompting, being tempted by Satan. I am also quite nurturing, but I put this down to the degree of my culture rather than my gender.
702. Modernity likes to think it can leave everything to “research” without doing any searching for itself.
703. The fundamental element, the basic building block of reality, is the riddle.
704. The entire universe is like a quasar: but a distributed series of concentrations of matter and energy emanating from rather than gravitating towards a black hole or Ein Sof, the Infinite Null Source, the Void of Creation. This source is operative at all points at all times. It is the root of this world, and the sefirot are its stem. Through service to men, beautification of our words and deeds, and the soul’s undying and complete love of God, we raise ourselves into eternity, and may even begin to prophecy. Indeed, it is the role of the prophet to lift the entire community into this state of blessedness and communion with the Uncreated Creator, the All-Conditioning Unconditioned, Shem Yisborach, The One of Blessed Name. This is especially important for the afterlife, for the more we achieve of this state in this lifetime the more we ascend to the level of Yechida, which is where we cleave to the divine light, the more there is left of us after we die to enter the next life. It is therefore of the utmost necessity that God’s plan be fulfilled in order that as many souls as possible can enter beatitude in this life and the next as an echo of both the man who is Most High, all the way to the Lord your God who is Most High, through whose grace the Most High man is himself. Let the Lord your God be known!
705. No amount of riches will remove the inherent limits on the measure of our enjoyment.
706. The afterlife is an echo of this life, a persistence of the soul in some unknown world or set of dimensions like a hologram around the perimeter of a black hole.
707. A righteous man only achieves his holiness through the teaching of righteousness.
708. Faith takes many forms; if a man is righteous in his dealings with others, and tries to uphold the good, this is a way of serving the Lord his God; so that, if he be an atheist, he may in fact not be so much as he thinks or professes to be. For God sees through outward professions and into the heart!
709. Error is invariably a misfire in the direction of our intentions.
710. Simultaneity is the breadth of presence, an ever-living series of signs.
711. Nobody is more displeased with life than a man who lacks faith.
712. You know what really sucks? Giving a vacuum cleaner a blowjob.
713. The law is the code of the operating system of the state, and the king is a programmer and administrator. His subjects, on the other hand, are the users and the contents of network protocols in the computer of society.
714. A king is rectified and his throne secured when he eliminates rival claimants, and his best weapon for achieving this, as in a game of chess, is his strategic intellect, and specifically his instinct for issuing governing edicts, all-encompassing proclamations.
715. You can’t win a basketball match by kicking the ball through the hoop.
716. To dig an extensive tunnel along a specific route to a specific end unaided, without geolocation services, would be nigh impossible, requiring superhuman powers of spatial awareness. Thus we would be with no divine hand to shepherd us.
717. All things are either amplified by, diminished by, or in equilibrium with other things.
718. The government—a friend to all—must needs sometimes be frightening to some.
719. Water going down a drain will oscillate and spiral towards the plughole, just as a tornado gathering force will spin around an eye.
720. Nothingness is supreme because it is untraceable, invisible, and thus indestructible.
721. Memory itself is a kind of mind within the mind.
722. To heal, a wound needs a much greater amount of time than it takes to inflict.
723. Some devastation is a lesson that allows itself not to be learnt.
724. The concept of sycophancy is historically mediated, and bespeaks a form of authority befitting blindly self-interested, vulgarian abusers of the common people. King David, Napoleon, and King Solomon were not of this type. It may even be argued that Genghis Khan was not either. Certainly there are no sycophants of Christ.
725. The word “bourgeois,” in both French, German, and English, has never recovered from its treatment by Marx.
726. The best thing to feed a disgruntled, exhausted, and overworked population is hope and promise on which you can deliver.
727. In naming our desire, we must first attune it to an ascent through the higher spiritual worlds towards the Most High Creator, the Lord our God.
728. A snake digests not its prey until it eats it whole.
729. Time spirals; existence is a sphere.
730. It is not in our volition to decide what does and does not go on the record.
731. The absolute annulment of will, to centre the mind in its inborn element of absence, is the highest fulfilment of our ultimate self-interest.
732. There is nothing that does not at least participate in the truth.
733. What is stated as eternal nonetheless reveals itself to stand in temporal relations with relative existence through the natural assignation of ulterior signifieds.
734. The historical effects of a man of high enough birth reverberate outwards across the distant past and future, and he only comes to see it once his present is aligned therewith.
735. The path less taken is not the path forged.
736. The worship of an idol offends all piety and any hint of taste for righteousness, correct conduct, and the good order of the state.
737. All dealing and bargaining should be conducted under the auspices of mutually understood reason.
738. By attending with your full heart to whatever is before you, and mastering its higher motions, you can effect an outcome at many degrees of remove.
739. He who desecrates the name of the Most High shall assuredly be brought low, and fierce ravaging is the lot of him who spurns faith and turns his heart away from the Lord.
740. God has seen fit to be witnessed by a congregation of those made in His image, whose love, gratitude, fear, and awe of Him undergoes various punctuations, lulls, and crescendos through the unfolding of His assurances and their ensuing fulfillment.
741. A satirical wit tells a joke and we laugh. Here, two things happen simultaneously. First, we are endeared to his humour and showmanship; second, we come to detest the object of his fun-poking. Is this not sublime warfare, whereby victor and vanquished are most clearly delineated?
742. Every existing thing is a part relative to other parts; God alone is whole, containing all these parts and transcending them as one reality.
743. The destiny of the messiah is to purify the hearts of men once and for all.
744. Temporality traces a spiral of perpetual deferral of the presentation of the future as future, whereby said presence unfurls as a movement from the curvature of its own passing away into memory.
745. How you reason is more important and even more consequential than what you reason.
746. What endures is worthy, and we should give thanks for this endurance and its worthiness.
747. Communism is the idea that life should not be wasted.
748. Guilt must pay or the world should not turn on its axis.
749. Recollection always pertains to a deviation from the smooth continuity of the familiar.
750. It is certainly the case that while the Lord’s messenger has privileged access to His reckoning, he has not a monopoly on it. For no sooner than he is inspired, he gives glad tidings, and offers a good word.
751. It is a most curious thing. My unconscious disassociations are invariably but consistent alignments of my speech with alternative referents, merely a different focus that coincidentally happens to match up with something I had not intended.
752. Strategy means to either move where the space allows, or to allow a space in which to move.
753. Give according to your desire to be blessed, and take according to the blessing of your desire.
754. As first of all an allowance, provision, condition of action, or order of ceremonies, a commandment may very well instruct us less in what to do and more in how to do something.
755. A chess game is won by what may be likened to prophecy.
756. Making good choices follows a capacity to discern between the hallowed light and a will-o’-the-wisp.
757. There is a spectre haunting earth, the spectre of nothingness.
758. What is essential but law and order, whose form is memetic repetition and echoing edict?
759. We intuitively pick up a hint, whereupon our interpretation puts it down.
760. A king’s mind is an ocean, and the people stand on the beach receiving its waves.
761. An education that does not teach you to love is not an education.
762. It is no help to shut your eyes and bury your head in the sand when attacked.
763. A gaze has a focal point, just as conception crystallises as a single thing.
764. The unconscious, structured like a language, stands in the same relations to consciousness as the void, structured like form, stands to creation.
765. The map of lexicography is at once the territory of representation.
766: We are only able to dispense loving-kindness to our friends to the extent that providence has delivered us from our enemies.
767. At times, in war, when a concession is forced, the enemy retrospectively divulges the designs of his intelligence operations which he has already prosecuted by deception and underneath a fog of war.
768. There are moments of salient clarity that speak to us in revelations so sure that we should be fools to ever doubt them. There are also other moments.
769. When the will of the people is most manifest, when their desires are laser-focused on a single end, it would be remiss not to act thereupon.
770. The total absence of nothing is the very essence of the localised presence of something.
771. By articulating the ideal in an ideal way, we make real what is real in it.
772. God’s will is nothing other than the highest law, a generative boundary on our heart, speech, and actions, and what it gives us is knowledge of what to do, and when, where, why, and how to do it.
773. A derivation that lives up to itself is no less enjoyable than an original.
774. Wonder is a question in search of an answer. Doubt is to question that answer. Certainty is the answer. Soon is certainly when.
775. The fact of all matter is condensed energy waiting to be harvested and redispersed. The matter of a fact is the same.
776. It is an act of charity dutiful to heaven to prematurely end the life of someone whose only foreseeable future was to worsen on the path of a rankly exploitative supervillain in a loveable friend’s clothing.
777. Only two things in life are certain: death and taxes. And only one thing in death is certain: taxes for unpunished sins.
778. Scandal begins when character goes into relief, and ends when the militarised police unit breathes a gentle nod of acknowledgement.
779. Sincerity must be deep, and must stimulate conception; irony must be wide enough to dwell upon in contemplation.
780. After all depiction too is a kind of creation.
781. Aesthetics is not divorced from reality, like a pleasing sheen painted on the shit of life, but rather the reality of the force of beauty, attractiveness, or gravity.
782. You admit that you cannot face my words, and openly name them as mine, though you devour them. For that would be to invite a shame too great to bear, a crushing realisation, and a devastating wake-up call to the deep of the real.
783. Nothing is more inviolably certain than that trust in God shall reward us. For that He Himself and all of us at once should gain by our iron faith is His desire, and its demonstration is the means by which He advances His majesty through His superlatively perfect designs.
784. Of all possessions an enemy is the one of whom we most wish to be dispossessed.
785. Praise is never mistaken, even when it is a mistake.
786. Keepest thy friends close in a distant parlour and keepest thine enemies afraid to be in thy mind.
787. Four is the number of creative destruction. Thus, four are the horsemen of the apocalypse (destruction of earth, incarnation of heaven), the fundamental elements (creation itself destroyed by itself), the cardinal directions (departure, arrival), and the sides of a coffin.
788. There is a lesson in the fact that nobody pretends to have pretensions if not satirically, which is merely to pretend to know better by obscuring the sickness of cunning aggression, and to reap the ill credit of not knowing better.
789. Five is the number of blessing, God’s favour, and ordainment. This is because, as four represents creative destruction, an additional one represents the Ultimate Master of such a force or combination of forces. It is also the number of fingers on a hand, which represents ability. As a semi-decimal unit, it is poised halfway between nothing and a single division of the base system of counting something or any number of somethings, i.e., ten, which is also the number of the most fundamental commandments, again signifying our almost constant wavering over how to act, what the next step is, do I need to retreat, repent, abase myself, submit, excuse myself or others, all such things having to do with the problem of sin and fallenness, as if God were saying in the number five, “Start again; this time, fulfil the whole.”
790. The world is a mirror into which God peers and sees Himself as Himself, while we are but the image thereby projected that He beholds, just as if I were to punch my reflection in the river, I would not get hit, but rather the river itself would split asunder and ripple.
791. If you were to ask me nothing in particular, and everything in general, would it be a good question?
792. Contingency is the uncountable locality of interacting relative positions; whereas, necessity is the ordained action of all that is determinately subsumed by the law.
793. There’s no argument with an appointed death but to make a point of not arguing.
794. The punishment for a man who condemns you to die, if the prosecution of this sentence fails, is death.
795. All fine sentences are fine punishments.
796. Exploring sexual taste is a most unstimulating venture, about which it is recommended that your best friend tell the whole world.
797. Explain to me again how “human rights” is a coherent juridical concept with meaningful applications and not just another example of an uninspired ruling class whose desperate attempts to live up to their superiors issues in little more than embarrassing buzzwords.
798. The strong shall inherit heaven.
799. All business activity is little more than a circle jerk around a water cooler.
800. Sufficiently pronounced righteousness is indistinguishable from what is called enhanced interrogation, in that it is designed to elicit a confession of the truth.
801. You don’t shoot intellectuals. You reason with them.
802. A man the essence of whose soul is constant malaise speaks the profoundest truth of all if he can only bring himself to do so.
803. There is no shade in Hades.
804. Political work at all levels is the lifeblood of the community.
805. I have always thought that the most delightful things happen under hypnosis, and the most useless things under pressure. I myself am immune to hypnosis, which is how I contracted its power.
806. The truth is heavy, therefore let something be light.
807. The insistence of a trace is the first condition of the appearance of knowledge and its articulation in the sentence.
808. The attraction of woman is that she never does anything wrong. Error is entirely the business of men, and what a trade they make of it!
809. The occupation of time precedes that of space.
810. Eternity is the irresistibly annihilating concretisation of a dark lust for the absoluteness of all infinitude, beginning in innocent abstraction and ending in the horror of a persistent excess.
811. My only desire is the reconciliation of all things. Desire that cannot speak for itself must be punished.
812. Desire is a knot of hesitation and resistance to itself and to what it perceives as preoccupying the other, combined with a direct intention to do away with all barriers to the realisation of its ends.
813. The power of reckoning is born from its absence.
814. The eternal answer of the problem of society, the essence of the good life, is to flee from people as far away as you can, and to barrage them with awesomely shocking attacks from the margins.
815. It is well to recall that the poor cannot afford to be honest.
816. Strategy in politics is simple. The further into the future your instincts reach, and the more they take in socially, the more your success is guaranteed.
817. The answer to cruelty is to be the one to provisionally allow it, thereby advancing into the position of being him whom it looks to for the sanction of its evil, while you and the Lord store up the knowledge of its trespass for eventual punishment.
818. I myself don’t really say I’m a woman. Women say I’m a woman. They are of course correct. But I am also the model of all future fathers.
819. The problem is the following one. We are not married to ourselves. We are not whole, we are divided subjects, we are a man and a woman in one person but alienated from each other, and in an abusive relationship with a controlling system.
820. All that is begotten is contingent except for the Son of Heaven, who is necessary, and by this element the Chosen One. This is the deeper lesson taught by the correct, ordained, and designed execution of the original Son of God, that the One True God is incorporeal. Thus the Son of Heaven participates in but is not identified with the essence of God as it appears in part to us by faith, as blessed necessity, a vital source, being its necessary derivation on earth, made in His image as a corporeal embodiment and not just a reflection thereof; an incarnation of the logos.
821. Denial of the truth that is not itself denied but rather negated by demonstration is the saving of the truth and the denial of Satan who is none but the father of all lies.
822. A man who repeats what he perceives to be your past mistakes back to you without your once feeling chastised or falling into silent reflection understands nothing about your present or your future.
823. Inhabitation of other souls is theft of their essence; whereas, replication of a noble soul taken up by others in a memetic fashion is to provide them with a profitable sense of identity and participation in greatness.
824. We ourselves are the dreams of God.
825. The forcible impact of an idea is a function of two things: its timing, and the abruptness of its concatenation insofar as this is maximally coherent.
826. Truth is not something which is subject to control.
827. Shame expresses an honourable desire for right conduct which is beloved of man and God, and should not be exarcerbated beyond a necessary measure of efficacy.
828. He who rejects what is reasonable enough by no means disagrees with it.
829. From each according to what he can demonstrate, to each according to what he deserves.
830. Heartfelt belief is what makes truth true.
831. Exploitation means essentially to colonise the minds of whole populations even without their knowledge, and then to take from them as yours the product of all that they do.
832. The clearest and most distinct meaning of what is ancient and traditional carries the sense of what was earliest organised in accordance to the most universal law of redressing grievances, the concept of the payment of a moral debt and how to avoid accruing one.
833. Everything is unfair in love and war.
834. Stupidity is the insistence that you know how to respond when you have no response.
835. The greatest capacity for seriousness is developed by taking unfunny things seriously and funny things seriously too.
836. Control and manipulation of the population for the advancement of private interests is the exact opposite of governance by virtue and leadership by demonstration.
837. Truth is God alone; God alone is the source of truth. From this everything follows.
838. A great deal of confusion and misunderstanding arises when behaviour and not the nature of the particular rules engraved in stone is recriminated or taken as the model of our decisions. Rather, it is the fundamental law itself which shapes our conduct and speech as an echo. Thus, a disordering of action, the perpetration or rather the apparent necessity of the prosecution of crime, is the product of a disordering in or a failure of the propagation of the rules of a system, as when an adequate ruler is not yet rectified, anointed, and established.
839. Understanding is nothing other than subjection to the knowledge of God, that is to say, “under-standing,” and in men not bestowed with this gift, which is all but the fewest number, it is subjection to him who demonstrates his hearing what it is that God has conceived for our fate, and how we are thereby to prepare and act.
840. Wrath without reason is protest without meaning.
841. A vampire on a bad day is nothing more than an infectious parasite and on a good one a donor of symbiotic hunger.
842. Anxiety is the passion most certain of its subject and uncertain of its object.
843. When a wolf hears the shepherd boy call out against his apparent incursion, he waits to hear it once more, then strikes.
844. The event is the message, and meaning itself is how we tell history.
845. History is the set of recognitions recognised.
846. Worship of the Lord, we should be pleased to admit, is the admission of relative stupidity, the recognition that a being whose intellect far exceeds our own governs the whole of our lives.
847. In fact pain has very little to do with gain. Indeed, they are even diametrically opposed: for pain is evil just as gain is evil.
848. A movie is an elaborate artifice designed to persuade us that events actually happen.
849. Time doesn’t die. Rather, it lends us everything.
850. The error of a great many men lies in their curious disregard of ultimate things, like the nature of the relationship between error and greatness.
851. For men to be strongly bonded together, women must be modestly behaved apart.
852. Distortions of language are the cries of the damned echoed through the mad.
853. Nothing is thus and so but only as it is true.
854. The Son of Heaven used to say: What to most is hateful I love, and what to most is lovely I hate. Thus, for me, what is lowest is highest; and what is highest, lowest.
855. What prevents a great many people from achieving wisdom is ironically an excessive concern with not being fooled.
856. He who understands his wretchedness may make a great deal of compensation for it in, say, personal cultivation, artistic pursuit, or the demonstration of virtue.
857. Opposites are alike insofar as they constitute each other.
858. Death is only the transition, for an indefinite period, to a certain non-experiential void from the experience of being; and then, perhaps, back again.
859. It is imperative that the fine-grain history of the people’s representative be kept close to the front of the mind of the public, and, in light of the inevitably compromising aspects of said history, especially for it to be reflected back to him for the purposes of maintaining his humility and integrity.
860. A person’s sense of their own worthiness is determined in the earliest stages of life, by the attention of parents, and any attempt to deviate from what we feel as a product of this time is met with fierce biological resistance.
861. The common pressure to be amusing, from which we typically detract and deflect by virtue of our own sense of self-respect and all its trappings, is, either when met or resisted, the cause of great social malaise.
862. Today is ever the time to invest in tomorrow.
863. Life is contact with reality; death is contact with ultimate reality.
864. Blessed indeed is the consciousness of disaster which guides without troubling.
865. If we have really won our freedom, what is there left to win?
866. Despair is an indulgence which valour cannot afford.
867. Some utterances are exchanged, some give, and some take away.
868. I do not believe there is a single convincing reason why all salaries, dividends, incomes, and wages should not be an equal amount.
869. If a proposition can be made, it can equally be rejected.
870. A good appeal to reason is more commanding than a commandment.
871. God as immanence and God as transcendence unite in the first cause.
872. What we desire is, loosely, what we think.
873. When in doubt, it is better to place faith in the goodness of men than in their evil.
874. Detachment from socioeconomic conditions is the first real step to exerting any effect over them.
875. Agreement belongs to one of the constitutive principles of justice. That is to say, what is just, is agreed.
876. The defensive idea, hopelessly crying out for as many contenders as possible, that most people are hoodwinked is more foolish than to admit one’s own foolishness.
877. This man (viz. Donald J. Trump) seems to me to have but one intention, to make a mockery of the office of president, and that is a sound one.
878. A challenge is simplest when sought.
879. Be content with your lot; it is a gift from the Lord.
880. Only the infinite can fully determine the finite.
881. The difference between wisdom and foolishness is that of self-attunement, and actively listening to one’s conscience.
882. Give the lion’s share to the lion.
883. He is wisest who earliest saw through the veil of illusion.
884. What we hear is both what is said and what is not said.
885. The oversimplification of the inner substance of ethics is of a kind with its cheapening and lack.
886. The nation is the prophylactic which prevents crimes against the larger category of humanity.
887. Complaint should aim at redress. Otherwise, it is nothing more than vanity.
888. What is purely invented can yet be accurately construed.
889. In fact nothing about destiny is manifest until the point of the null set, nothing-as-one, the singularity.
890. Neither does judgement allow of an absolute frame of reference.
891. Intellectual history is like speculative epidemiology: you don’t know what you’ve caught, but it seems to be having a pronounced effect on your tongue.
892. Anything that has intruded in the mind to such an extent that it overpowers one’s standard patterns of thought can rightly be said to belong to oneself.
893. A message is only information intended.
894. In order for it to be accurate and effective, rhetoric must be more than mere exaggeration.
895. A question posed to God is a prayer of the intellect rather than the soul.
896. A single human being exulting in the Lord lends all suffering purpose.
897. Reality is the most faithful fiction.
898. A wise man stands on either side of a conflict while it rages, and on the victor’s side whereupon it is decided.
899. It is well to note that what saves us from damnation is not, for example, some kind of abstract delight in deception, but on the contrary the truth of our hearts in bondage to the Lord.
900. Logically speaking, all that we say and do must needs be the product of what we believe it is in fact best to say or do. So that, indeed, any limitation in our words or deeds must needs be a limit of imagination.
901. The best interests of your client are simple: if he must sin, he must time it well; and if he is to do good, he must also look after himself.
902. The natural counterpart and opposite of fear may not be hope so much as pity.
903. Subjectivity is understanding; whereas, objectivity is factual.
904. The problem of society lies in the following. We must fight to get what we want, but fighting necessarily involves us in what we don’t in fact want. All the rest is commentary.
905. A war crime is but a crime against ourselves which remains an abstract and future potential, a hallucinogenic casting of ourselves in the shoes of whoever happens to be suffering.
906. The solution to the hard problem of physics, the ostensible incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics, is as follows. A frame of reference is the ground of the essence and the condition of the possibility of a definitely observed state, and vice versa. More than this, any directly observed object within a given frame of reference does not obtain at a direct correspondence of separate temporal conditions insofar as it cannot be observed in such correspondence, as two distinct objects. In addition, it is precisely the non-correspondence in any direct sense between an observer and his background frames of reference which creates the temporal dislocations famous in general relativity, that is, the anomalous relations of spacetime. When the quantum collapse obtains, and the quanta are beheld as either particle or wave, this is like the differentiation among frames of reference; both exist as they are, but differ in relation to each other.
907. Nothing is more traumatising to escape than the shadow of a home.
908. The singular tactic of religion is illumination, the dispelling of shadows and the demons they harbour.
909. The fear and trembling of the common people is the balm and treasure of both the king and his God.
910. Human connection is the object of our desire, and nothing achieves it like a good misdeed.
911. What I establish as real for the whole is the essentially informative part of your identity which mostly appears as fake. Who is speaking here? A collaborative effort specially conditioned to arise in myself as the chosen herald of the Lord’s reckoning. And then ourselves again.
912. The wisdom traditions of the world are agreed upon the illusoriness of the self and its essentially transitive nature. That of which they are at the same time emphatic is the intractability of the cage of the body, the house of intentionality and the prison of desire.
913. A great many people evade the trouble of social condemnation by filling the role of the most salient character, in short, the one they have been gossiping about.
914. Graceful is he who makes a concession a quiet attack.
915. Determinism is nothing other than the condition of the necessity of the appearance of the decidable as decided.
916. Everyone is their own protagonist of reality, but only a saint is its universal substratum.
917. To be sure of who is in charge is to put at ease any lingering stress of contention. And what validates a leader above all else is that the common people can participate in his deliberations, offering to him nothing that he has not given to them.
918. Modern progressivism and democratic liberalism are efflorescences of hope turned into poison.
919. It is not by accident that the instinct to engrave, to legislate, to carve into rock, soon enough translates into the prospecting of the drilling industry.
920. That the record of the hour of my disgrace has been assiduously kept out of my view can mean only one thing, which I have long known: what you can admit spells nothing about my being manipulated by shadows; indeed, it was I who narrowed my vision, setting my heart on wisdom.
921. After we die, God willing, I shall not let go of you.
922. The movement of a lion’s jaw when he roars is the same as that when he goes to bite.
923. I can heartily recommend having no restraint on those homicidal intentions you harbour—I have always found it goes down well with the police!
924. The sanest man wakes while he dreams.
925. Computer programming code is written as the most complete reflection in the abdomen of the sovereign.
926. Reason is spiral-shaped like the propagation of the solar system through space, tracing its tendrils of interpenetrating cause and effect on an upward-moving plane, along the curvature of spacetime.
927. The most decisive element of the self is determined by the struggle for transcendence, the erotic pull of something ever-so-elusive, something yet greater than all of this, some ultimate answer to the question of all our striving and our dissatisfaction with this striving.
928. The comparison to Spinoza is not incidental; indeed, and again, it is not accidental that he was styled “The Savage Anomaly” by a succeeding scholar. Truly, I tell you, I myself am a lightning rod amongst men, a conductor of the energies of heaven.
929. You are not even entitled to your outrage and upsetness.
930. In remembering oneself, one becomes oneself.
931. A theme is a wave and a detail is a droplet.
932. What is culture? It is rhetorical attack and defence, the martial arts of wit. A man of culture must have a firm sense of his aggressive and sexual drives, and especially he must know when and how to discharge them.
933. Advertising is the science of deciding what is cool.
934. Heaven knows that my enemies are only friends-in-waiting who know themselves not!
935. To speak of “this or that point in time” is to boil the sea and herd the wind.
936. A man who lacks the willingness to utter terrible things and perform miserable deeds lacks, too, a certain fundamental self-respect for which such things are requisite.
937. A habitual liar suffers from the disability of only saying what he doesn’t believe.
938. Scholarship fosters a concern for the truth as well as for the particular mechanisms of its construction.
939. The problem of the mask can be approached in the following manner. Why, given the option, should we not opt to adorn the face of the best among men? But we rather play the fool, the joker, and the warrior. What is happening here? Is it a lack in transmission, instruction, dissemination?
940. No man was ever memorialised for his attempts, but, equally, no man who did not attempt was ever memorialised.
941. Any sufficiently honest man will admit that it is a great torment not to be Jewish, to feel that somehow the favour of the Lord is displaced from the only self you know to a more noble and established people.
942. He who has not known the value of honour has no desire to defend it.
943. The word “Jew” does not appear in the Hebrew Bible.
944. Our lives are but the days of eternity.
945. The one who suffers in faith, whose prayer is a cry of anguish—what is more holy than this?
946. The essential problem with hysteria is that it presents as a demand for love, but is really only ever made in the most aggressive and accusatory terms, thereby foreclosing the opportunity for any love to flower.
947. It is not necessarily in the degree that we identity as this or that person that we are other than ourselves in some considerable respect.
948. What appears to us we then perceive, and what we perceive is what appears to us. At any rate, this is apparently what I perceive!
949. Inventiveness deserves a better fate than being the signal characteristic of liars, or at least of those who deserve to be called liars, that is, those who lead astray.
950. A so-called “stakeholder” is merely a man whose special glory is that he is owed.
951. The implications of a momentous event may cover its glory, as if it were at once a defilement of holiness, and the most holy of holies.
952. If the whims of the sovereign, whose content descends from heaven, are not honoured, nothing is.
953. The greatest man is celebrated only because he is the whole of humanity, and his thoughts are thought by all.
954. We ourselves are but the outstretched limbs of God’s decisions.
955. The path of redemption of the captive to public disesteem lies in his accepting a painful responsibility to act in full fidelity to his ironically playing a role, which is counterposed to the one he is thought by virtue of his history to play.
956. I should never, ever like to do wrong by one who wishes to be my equal.
957. The establishment of truth, whether understood explicitly or implicitly, is what allows us to proceed with a given course of action.
958. Protection comes before emancipation. For indeed, it is our liberty to act against one another that establishes the need for security.
959. I shall call a thing necessary whose determinate modes of propagation are restricted to a definite and invariable set of parameters.
960. The purpose of life is reproduction, and the essence of the Holy Spirit is replication.
961. The Antichrist is the figure of a Second Coming who judges the world unworthy of redemption, and as King of the Jews invokes the judgement of the Father in condemning the gentiles to oblivion and perdition, raging at their vacuously compensatory trivialities and flipping tables as Jesus the First did in the Temple.
962. I shall call a word the stamp of a thing, its reflection as meaning in the mind.
963. Nothing, and nothing alone, lasts forever.
964. A mirror cannot see.
965. Education is destiny.
966. The epic cycle is not only a type of ancient poem; it is more fundamentally the form of our successive existences, the way we pass through history beyond ourselves.
967. Expressive indifference is the peculiar virtue of a ruler.
968. You may see, but I alone am full of your vision.
969. The question of whether or not I am Jewish cannot be answered with a simple “yes” or “no.” According to Frank Herbert, however, the answer, uncontroversially, is that I was consecrated as the messiah and Kwisatz Haderach, meaning a superbeing who “shortens the way.” In short, the answer is yes.
970. A nobleman, in all societies, is distinguished by his honesty, truthfulness, and plain dealing.
971. The problem of freedom is fundamentally a problem of control. Without control, that is to say, without mediation, freedom soon degenerates into anarchy, and all manner of waywardness comes into view.
972. Philosophy is nothing other than the construction of solid generalities, which for me are wide and deep in their application.
973. The pyramid, and the pyramid alone, has been regarded by wise men as the type of wisdom. For the genius of the philosopher is built upon a capacity for recognition, an apex of vision, that starts in his own image being reflected back to him by the people.
974. Judgement is the estimation of value; whereas, rationality is the formulation of illustrative coherencies.
975. Shame invites judgement, and streams from every pore of a guilty man.