110+ Criss Jami Quotes On Friendship, Arms And Logical

Criss Jami is an American philosopher and writer. He is best known for his works on philosophy, religion, and psychology. His most popular works include Killosophy, Venus in Arms, and Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Criss Jami on love, life, friendship.

Top 10 Criss Jami Quotes

1. Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.
2. The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.
3. The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.
4. If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
5. To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
6. Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.
7. There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.
8. God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.
9. It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias
10. A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

Criss Jami Short Quotes

• Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
• The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
• A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
• The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.
• Old words are reborn with new faces.
• Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.
• Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.
• To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.
• Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.
• Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

Criss Jami Quotes About Love

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect. — Criss Jami

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray! — Criss Jami

Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love. — Criss Jami

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in. — Criss Jami

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself. — Criss Jami

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing. — Criss Jami

Love is as simple as the absence of self- given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions. — Criss Jami

Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills. — Criss Jami

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it. — Criss Jami

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters. — Criss Jami

Criss Jami Quotes About Life

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. — Criss Jami

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on — Criss Jami

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing. — Criss Jami

Music is not my life. My life is music. — Criss Jami

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection. — Criss Jami

I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk. — Criss Jami

It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life. — Criss Jami

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity. — Criss Jami

It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate. — Criss Jami

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. — Criss Jami

Criss Jami Quotes About Logical

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball. — Criss Jami

In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth. — Criss Jami

Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy ('love of wisdom') is simply a tool depending on how one uses it, and in some cases, logically understanding the nature of God and existence. — Criss Jami

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see. — Criss Jami

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved. — Criss Jami

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated. — Criss Jami

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies. — Criss Jami

Criss Jami Quotes About Serve

A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king. — Criss Jami

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live. — Criss Jami

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce. — Criss Jami

Criss Jami Quotes About Purpose

The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality. — Criss Jami

When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own. — Criss Jami

Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun. — Criss Jami

Criss Jami Quotes About Live

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live. — Criss Jami

All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it. — Criss Jami

People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives. — Criss Jami

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well. — Criss Jami

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you. — Criss Jami

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive. — Criss Jami

Criss Jami Quotes About Success

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. — Criss Jami

Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people. — Criss Jami

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light. — Criss Jami

Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell. — Criss Jami

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. — Criss Jami

Criss Jami Famous Quotes And Sayings

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not. — Criss Jami

Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough. — Criss Jami

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields. — Criss Jami

Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions. — Criss Jami

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent. — Criss Jami

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. — Criss Jami

When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone. — Criss Jami

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'. — Criss Jami

Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself. — Criss Jami

Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal. — Criss Jami

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind. — Criss Jami

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness. — Criss Jami

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being. — Criss Jami

If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. I must be honest about such strange feelings: I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a bougie aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo. — Criss Jami

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help. — Criss Jami

Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy. — Criss Jami

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it. — Criss Jami

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal. — Criss Jami

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives. — Criss Jami

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track. — Criss Jami

There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper. — Criss Jami

We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan. — Criss Jami

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both. — Criss Jami

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. — Criss Jami

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations. — Criss Jami

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened. — Criss Jami

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again. — Criss Jami

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided. — Criss Jami

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them. — Criss Jami

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual. — Criss Jami

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend. — Criss Jami

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer. — Criss Jami

In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices. — Criss Jami

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience. — Criss Jami

The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man. — Criss Jami

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are. — Criss Jami

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness. — Criss Jami

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. — Criss Jami

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you. — Criss Jami

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated. — Criss Jami

As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate. — Criss Jami

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. — Criss Jami

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about. — Criss Jami

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning. — Criss Jami

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot. — Criss Jami

The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption. — Criss Jami

Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar. — Criss Jami

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed. — Criss Jami

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure. — Criss Jami

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser. — Criss Jami

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane. — Criss Jami

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction. — Criss Jami

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired. — Criss Jami

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity. — Criss Jami

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie. — Criss Jami

It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done. — Criss Jami

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are. — Criss Jami

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. — Criss Jami

Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark. — Criss Jami

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.' — Criss Jami

One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God. — Criss Jami

A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth. — Criss Jami

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine. — Criss Jami

When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain. — Criss Jami

To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features. — Criss Jami

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all. — Criss Jami

Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon. — Criss Jami

I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out. — Criss Jami

I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one. — Criss Jami

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies. — Criss Jami

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person. — Criss Jami

An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins. — Criss Jami

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. — Criss Jami

A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them. — Criss Jami

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent. — Criss Jami

Life Lessons by Criss Jami

1. Criss Jami encourages us to think critically and objectively about the world around us, challenging us to think beyond our own biases and preconceptions.
2. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the interconnectedness of all things and of recognizing the power of our own individual actions.
3. He encourages us to strive for a more compassionate and understanding world by embracing our differences and recognizing the beauty in our diversity.