A genius is generally equally surprised by his discoveries as the ones who witness them.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: genius, discovery)
A man is, in theory, his thoughts, but he is only known through his actions. One’s thoughts are brought about strictly in response and reaction to one’s environment, and, in the end, the man is only what the world has remarked.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: thoughts, self)
A wise man is different only in that he is overly conscious of his own mortality.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: wisdom, mortality)
Ah what the hell … you only die once.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: death)
All humans are entrapped in similar prisons: birth, language, biology, etc. The search for free will must begin between these, so where is that?
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: free will, prisons, birth, language, biology)
An irony about life is that the better you are at living it, the more likely you are to die. We should, thus, quickly divert our complete reverence to the pinnacle of living–suicide.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: irony, suicide, life)
As for the moment, I am going to go dream of lilies, boobies, and crocodile monsoons.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: dreams, lilies, boobies, monsoons)
As long as the expense is more conducive to livelihood than the contrary, it is justified.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: expense, livelihood, worth)
Ask any human with a pet to place a value on that pet, and he/she will be
unable to speak a number amply high–until tax time.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: pets, taxes)
At birth we are given a choice of delusions to which we will subscribe. Some choose the delusion that they are able to make that choice.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: delusion, choice, free will)
Do eggs taste like chicken?
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: eggs, chicken)
Enthusiasm far outweighs reason.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: enthusiasm, reason)
Ever notice there is just enough shade for all the cows?
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: shade, cows)
Freedom is the epitome of this life. Life–where one is censored from information, from exploration, from inquisition in inverse proportion to one’s wealth, geography, or genetics. Therefore, birth alone qualifies the individual for the fickle entertainment of the pursuit of these privileges.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: freedom, life, birth)
Genius cannot exist within predefined parameters, although it often serves that context well. It must have a well defined “smooth curve” across parameters. I am not entirely sure it exists at all.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: genius)
God created man with a tremendous imagination, and then, with his infinite wit, created money to thwart it.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: religion, god, man, money)
Humility must be one of the highest forms of arrogance.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: humility, arrogance)
I am much more interested in where I am going than where I’ve been or, oddly enough, where I am.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: the future)
I am very afraid of forgetting the thoughts I have thought and thus becoming the person I don’t want to be.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: thoughts, self)
If everyone remembered Mozart as a lazy, arrogant bastard who spent all his time frivolously banging on a worthless piece of trash, I guarantee you the last person who would care is Mozart!
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: mozart, art, death, perspective)
If freedom comes with responsibility, is it not better to be imprisoned and beholden to nothing?
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: freedom, responsibility, imprisonment)
If I die via some act that is deemed statistically to be the safest act in the world, am I actually the MOST justified in the ending of my life? [and therefore safe from receiving a Darwin award]
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: death, statistics, darwin awards)
If it is global, is it necessarily international? And if it is international, when does it become global?
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: global, international)
If my horse leads me to the land of milk and honey, you still cannot starve me by killing the horse.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: horses, starvation)
Innate quirks are nature’s poetry.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: nature, poetry, quirks)
Innovation is not explicitly understood and, hopefully, never will be.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: innovation)
Is it just me, or am I confused?
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: confusion)
It is frustrating not being who one imagined oneself would be and yet still be the one who did the imagining.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: self, frustration, imagination)
It is often that reverence of the words gives philosophical weight to the quandary.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: quandary, philosophy, reverence)
It is our illusions, or our delusion, that keep us sane.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: sanity, delusions, illusions)
It kills me to think that people might know me well for one of my passions but not at all for the rest of them. I’d almost rather be known for none.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: passions, meaning, purpose)
It kind of sucks that the first clothes I wash are the last ones I wore.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: clothes, doh)
It’s all a matter of opium.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: opinion, opium, existence)
It’s called foresight. You should look into it.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: foresight)
Knowing that you’re in the game makes winning the game significantly less intuitive.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: knowing, awareness, winning, game)
LAW: One cannot “abuse” nature. It only reacts to itself.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: nature, law)
Life is the giant string you spend your years untangling.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: life)
Life: The fruitless attempt to turn the present into the future as the present consistently, invariably becomes the past.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: life, the present, the future, the past)
Limitations are the artist’s greatest compatriot.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: limitations, art, artist)
Love is is an advanced level of appreciation. It’s an attachment — a glue whose solvent you cannot fathom.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: love, appreciation, glue, solvent)
Love only is. It never was nor ever will be.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: love)
Manifest of an idiot: I absolve myself from duty. Humans’ only necessity is to live. Greatness is not within, it is without.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: idiot, duty, necessity, purpose, greatness)
My most useful survival tool is anticipation.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: anticipation, survival)
People want you to be honest, but doing so does not always entail telling the truth.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: honesty, truth)
Perfection only ever comes accidentally.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: perfection)
Procrastination is our insistence that eternity is on our side.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: procrastination, eternity)
Repression is 9/10ths of the law.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: law, possession, repression)
Science gives us reason for and understanding of our emotions. It makes us take responsibility for our inadequacies, our inconsistencies, and our incongruencies. It’s very spiritual.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: science, emotions, spirituality)
Solutions are always obvious. It is problems that are not always so clear. I suppose that is problematic. I really think in my head is the solution. There are at least a few. Ok this paragraph is a bit schizophrenic. Good day.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: schizophrenia, solutions, problems)
The distinction between animals and humans is quite clear, humans being the only animal that doesn’t know it.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: animals, humans)
The man who walks out of enemy territory without an increased empathy for his opponent’s point of view has wasted an opportunity.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: opponent, enemy, empathy, opportunity)
Things are only as you imagine them, because there is nothing else.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: imagination, existence)
Time and consciousness do not evolve in tandem. Evolution of the senses and
sense of self are incongruent across time. In other words, I–the current me–could not possibly recognize the old me as me.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: me, time, consciousness, senses, sense of self)
To the artist, the profound is innate so it is not amply profound. Generally, he is not in control of the process that renders his genius, only the medium. His genius is most often in the accent with which he speaks, not in his words.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: profundity, profound, genius, artist, art, words, accent)
Truth is the last thing that one should ever expect to be revealed by the democratic process.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: truth, democracy)
Truth: Humans are savage beings and are psychotic (literally and figuratively) for not accepting it. They would benefit greatly in rediscovering themselves in the truths they abandoned in forgetting their nature. All men are not created equal.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: savage, humans, nature, equality)
Volume is sound’s biggest enemy.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: sound, volume)
We are never free, because we are constantly subject to–prisoners of or imprisoned by–some pre-existing environmental state. Revolution is the bursting of the festering sore of tolerability.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: freedom, imprisonment, free will, revolution, tolerability)
We’re so enraptured by the universe that we invented that we fail to see the one that is actually here.
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: universe, euphoria)
Why is the mnemonic so much easier to remember?
— Jeremy Tharp
(Tags: mnemonics)
