A personal attack is a form of social interaction in a negative manner, and many will always find it much more enjoyable than social interaction in a positive manner.
It always produces much moral satisfaction in society to enable a highly educated young man to become a bonded warehouseman.
It is a general rule of being a social moron that a social moron does not know he is a social moron, but thinks it’s to do with other people’s viewpoints.
If from the start you know that you’re dealing with a bunch of primates in The Monkey House, you won’t be surprised too much by what they get up to at feeding time.
Most people would like to use some type of “frighteners” at some time in their lives, these range from kitchen knives, knuckle dusters, pickaxe handles, machetes, yo-yos and sawn off shot-guns; and some people will use them too, usually without a moment’s hesitation.
Normal people in society will always attack the interests of those strange individuals who insist on looking like Nosferatu, as they don’t like the idea of being bit.
Physically ugly people can really enjoy seeing the beautiful people screw up, as then they can feel that the world is a fairer place because of it, and it is.
Most people will do an inordinate amount of damage to others without even thinking twice about it; which probably just means that they don’t need to.
A sarcastic wit in polite society can occasionally go too far, and so he becomes a sarcastic twit; but then he may not notice it, because everyone’s obviously too polite to say so.
How does someone make an everyday moral decision? He makes it in a poor, slapdash manner, and then, if he survives it, he just does it again.
To grasp the nettle firmly you must also feel its pain at being grasped, although, in doing so, it can still be quite painful.
Vanity must be a very cosy thing when you feel it completely justified by your pleasures.
Make more of nonsense gained through misunderstanding, so you can appreciate making sense even better than it deserves.
The human mind in action can be seen as a series of pre-programmed conditioned responses to change, although most people wouldn’t know why anybody would want to see it that way, especially without a good reason.
If you’re not fighting hard enough today you need to fight harder; if you can’t do that, well, perhaps you should find an easier pace of battle.
Just do as you wish, as nobody else could be bothered enough to do it for you anyway.
About Me
- Drew Byrne
- Basically, I am someone interested in quotations, those mainly being of an aphoristic form; consequently, I have collected many examples together over the years, ones which I most liked, warmed to, or appreciated. Although most of these I cannot really now recall without looking them up, and so I supppose are not of much use except as written ornaments to an inefficient memory, but so it goes. I am interested in archaeology, history, and antiques, although not as much as I once was. Philosophy, also, has interested me from time to time, although I never learned much about it. It has been said (although certainly not by me) that “in time, most men become philosophers, although not particularly good ones.” I can say without much hesitation that that I am one of these fellows.
What up, I'm new on Blogger and this journal seemed like an interesting conceit. In response to your first aphorism, my personal attack begins thusly: that someone's been reading too much Nietzsche, that the "short pithy quotations" in your profile is redundant, and that the Nosferatu one should read "they don’t like the idea of being BITTEN". I'm Sammy, by the way.
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