Break the mainstream

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Language remains a window into the mind: the words we have constructed over the last couple of decades reflect our new uncertainties and our new possibilities.

The only safe way to avoid violating principles of professional ethics is to refrain from doing social research altogether. 

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

You have been told to go grubbing in the library thereby accumulating a mass of notes and a liberal coating of grime. You have been told to choose problems wherever you can find musty stacks of routine records. This is called 'getting your hands dirty in real research'. Those who counsel you thus are wise and honorable men. But one thing more is needful: first hand observation. Go sit in the lounges of the luxury hotels and on the doorsteps of the flop-houses; sit on the Gold Coast settees and in the slum shakedowns; sit in the orchestra hall and in the Star and Garter Burlesque. In short, gentlemen, go get the seat of your pants dirty in real research.

There has been a veritable blitzkrieg on the male gender, what amounts to an outright demonization of men and a slander against masculinity. [...] Men should never feel apologetic about their gender, as gender. They should be concerned with the maturation and the stewardship of that gender and of the larger world. The enemy of both sexes is not the other sex but infantile grandiosity and the splitting of the Self that results from it.

Happiness is equal to or greater than the events of your life minus your expectation of how life should be.

At the core of our suffering is the sense that something is irreparably wrong with our lives, and wrong is the negation of what could have been right. Suffering resists definition because it is the reality of what is not.

You are not so abnormal as you think. Every human being is visited from time to time by the Imp of the Perverse, who makes you think the most inappropriate thoughts at the most inappropriate times.

Education is not the learning of facts. It’s rather the training of the mind to think.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

What cannot be said, above all, must not be silenced, but written.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise. 

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most

Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,

The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

- Lord Byron -

My name is Elvis Gomes and I suffered from OCD. After having participated on SWITZERLAND’S GOT TALENT, I started a fundraising campaign to support the research on OCD. Please support me by sharing this!