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egocentric melodrama.
Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.
There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.
Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.
Vulnerable, messed-up, inadequate
the kind of person who in one moment could guess, with breathtaking coldness, at the innermost sorrow in your heart, and in the next moment turn and, with a cheery wave of farewell, march blithely through a plate-glass window, requiring twenty-two stitches in his cheek.
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation,
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn;
Object of my implacable disgust.
abysmally beshitted.
Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive
Judgmental heart has lack of introspection.
Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.
The right words to express oneself can never be found in any dictionary.
How contemptible! Of all things in the world inconstancy is my aversion. Let
The historian, predisposed to verbal evidence, who reads about rather than looks at objects, becomes dependent upon secondhand impressions and is helpless when critics disagree or interpose their own extraneous judgments between the work and the viewer.
Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.
I am not very introspective.
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
Eschew all those beastly adjectives ...
Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac ... It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.
Solipsistic, adj.
Go ahead, I thought. Go ahead. Go ahead. I got stuck there. Go ahead. Go ahead. Because I genuinely couldn't see anything after that.
Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
Severely bifurcated as he: someone who could be so utterly confident in some realms and so utterly despondent in others.
I am a contrarian.
Egotistical. Worst of all, he is a tyrant. But look! she said, looking at him. Look
I'm very pragmatic.
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
The superficial and the slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization.
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.
Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world on paper, and denies the Sun shines because he himself is blind.
People are complicated; you can't label 'em with a word.
... quite naturally, I am curious about behaviour which does not fit the natural patterns, which floats suspended at some unexplored level of the sentient sea and defies the tides and waves of society.
One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments ... is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease.
I am pretty unextraordinary.
DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.
You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
Detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.
Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment.
Independent," I say, "and uninvolved. Must be nice
I am persuaded that a coldly-thought-out and independent verdict upon a fashion in clothes, or manners, or literature, or politics, or religion, or any other matter that is projected into the field of our notice and interest, is a most rare thing -- if it has indeed ever existed.
The conceptions of idle talk, of superfluities, and of vain ostentation, all designations of an irrational attitude without objective purpose, thus
Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art.
Don't try to define me
An unSpiritual person is: A Human Current of Energy in an Ocean of Air
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
A determinist perspective designed to ensure the people's docile acceptance of the circumstances of their existence: the king, the state, the land?
The relativists' stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its most obscurantist factions as spokespeople for the whole.
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.
I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
I hate that word, by the way. Retarded. I
...radiating honest ignorance
When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.
That distant look characteristic of people who do not wish to be agreeable ...
Some would say eccentric. I would say stoned out of his fuckin mind, nothing personal.
Frightfully pale and perpetually odd
Asked, Would you call yourself impetuous, Addie?
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
An objective viewpoint was beyond her; she was single-minded to a fault.
The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.
Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor ...
I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent. And I can't be controlled.
You're the least power-hungry person I've ever met. You're also the most stubborn person I've ever met. Disrespectful. Mouthy." "You mean independent and proactive in taking initiative." "That,
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.
Those [who] assiduously fabricate for themselves a self-conscious originality, and after having made a choice of certain practices, their principal preoccupation is never to depart from them, to remain for ever on their guard and allow themselves not a moment's relaxation.
It is, indeed, strange how often persons, living in other respects quite unobjectively, can suddenly become acutely objective about some specific concern of their own.
Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
People who get his kind of result are ... She looks over her shoulder like she expects someone to appear behind her ... are called ... Divergent.
In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.
Unremarkable, but with a brainy arrogance wafting from them.
Fine ... a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.
Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Fault, impeccably mannered, and had no real
Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.
Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.
disposition, seemed
Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.
My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.
strangely ambivalent about
A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything.
(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.
If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.
What is alienation? Thought.
A traveler, the purer form, someone who collects impressions, dense anatomies of feeling but does not care to record them.
You can be non-judgmental, but you don't want to be non-discerning because, remember, the force of evolution is the conversation, you know: two truths standing up to each other in conversation, and the best truth emerges, and the best truth prevails.
Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.
Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.
Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.
A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.
view. Absentmindedly