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Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.


Ambrose Bierce


#definition #honesty #vision

Uncouth, clannish, lumbering about the confines of Space and Time with a puzzled expression on his face and a handful of things scavenged on the way from gutters, interglacial littorals, sacked settlements and broken relationships, the Earth-human has no use for thinking except in the service of acquisition. He stands at every gate with one hand held out and the other behind his back, inventing reasons why he should be let in. From the first bunch of bananas, his every sluggish fit or dull fleabite of mental activity has prompted more, more; and his time has been spent for thousands of years in the construction and sophistication of systems of ideas that will enable him to excuse, rationalize, and moralize the grasping hand. His dreams, those priceless comic visions he has of himself as a being with concerns beyond the material, are no more than furtive cannibals stumbling round in an uncomfortable murk of emotion, trying to eat each other. Politics, religion, ideology — desperate, edgy attempts to shift the onus of responsibility for his own actions: abdications. His hands have the largest neural representation in the somesthetic cortex, his head the smallest; but he's always trying to hide the one behind the other.


M. John Harrison


#greed #human-nature #thought #dreams

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.


Jamie Whyte


#cynicism #logic #journalist

There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.


Niccolò Machiavelli


#dire #religious

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.


George Carlin


#disillusionment #idealism #disappointment

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?


Gabrielle Zevin


#memoir

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.


Jenny Holzer


#cynicism #politics #cynicism

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.


H.P. Lovecraft


#cynic #existence #suicide #cynicism

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.


Peter M. Senge


#idealism #cynicism

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.


Dorothy Parker


#cynicism






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