Malaclypse the Younger quotes

“The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered. Reality is the original Rorschach. Verily! So much for all that.”
-- Malaclypse the Younger

Source : Malaclypse The Younger (2013). “Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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“And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence, and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.”
-- Malaclypse the Younger

Source : Malaclypse the Younger, Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (2006). “Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion”, p.156, Ronin Publishing

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“We are not engaged in a complicated joke disguised as a religion. We are engaged in a religion disguised as a complicated joke.”
-- Malaclypse the Younger

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“To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder”
-- Malaclypse the Younger

Source : Malaclypse The Younger (2013). “Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger”, p.93, Lulu Press, Inc

#Order Quotes #Creative Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.”
-- Malaclypse the Younger

Source : Malaclypse the Younger, Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (2006). “Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion”, p.23, Ronin Publishing

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“The human race will begin solving its problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously.”
-- Malaclypse the Younger

Source : Malaclypse the Younger, Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (2006). “Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion”, p.187, Ronin Publishing

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“Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.”
-- Malaclypse the Younger

Source : Malaclypse The Younger (2013). “Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger”, p.79, Lulu Press, Inc

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“I don’t know man, I didn’t do it.”
-- Malaclypse the Younger

Source : Malaclypse The Younger (2010). “Principia Discordia”, Lulu.com

#Men Quotes #Knows Quotes

“One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.”

“There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.”

“The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.”

“We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.”

“No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?”

“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”

Source : "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese. Chapter 6: "My Abyssinia", 2009.

“The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.”

“For me, there has never been one definition of beauty. I think we all have something to offer and when beauty shines from within, there can be no denying it”