We have very little control over what we perceive as beauty, and we’ll only recognize it when our hand is forced by social norms.
— Jeremy Tharp (Tags: society, beauty, art, culture, social norms, perception, free will)
We start as a relatively blank slate, growing and yearning to overcomplicate our lives with perspective. Once that perspective solidifies, we spend the rest of our lives trying to simplify the overly complex world we invented.
— Jeremy Tharp (Tags: overcomplications, life, living, complexity, simplification, irony)
Life would suck if it weren’t so damned frustrating.
(Tags: life, existentialism, frustrations)
It is fortunate that, most often, we make it through life’s difficulties only comprehending said difficulty in retrospect. It is this phenomenon, however, that blurs the path to a future beaten to submission.
— Jeremy Tharp (Tags: fortune, difficulty, challenges, the past, the future, the present, submission, retrospect)
My value system is relatively pragmatic.
— Jeremy Tharp (Tags: relativity, values, pragmatism)
If you’re trying to clarify your universe with your own perspective, you will always be a vagabond.
— Jeremy Tharp (Tags: perspective, clarity, the universe, vagabonds)
Genius cannot be manufactured, otherwise, it would not be exalted. Through, effectively, random insight, a genius transports genius out of obscurity and subsequently fails to understand how.
— Jeremy Tharp (Tags: genius, manufacturing, transportion, obscurity, spotlights, randomness)
It would be contradictory for one to understand why he/she is good at art. In general, genius can never be well-defined, as its importance lies in its surprise (even to its vehicle).
— Jeremy Tharp (Tags: genius, art, contradictions, understanding, importance, surprise)
Fruit flies are little f*king Houdinis …
— Jeremy Tharp (Tags: fruit flies, houdini, annoyances, magic)
Ignorant people have no incentive to be cured. (Maybe “Ignorance is the most stubborn of diseases.”)
— Jeremy Tharp (Tags: ignorance, ignorant people, incentives, remedies, cures, disease, stubbornness)
So the moral of the story is, every minute you spend listening to stories is a minute you didn’t spend changing the world. (And it has a poopy diaper).
— Jeremy Tharp (Tags: stories, morals, listening, idling, diapers, changing the world)
Politics: where success from an alternate path is worse than failure.
— Jeremy Tharp (Tags: politics, success, failure, alternate methods, common ground)
It is necessary to make oneself aware of what one knows outright and what one wants to be true and to make oneself capable of suspending both if one hopes to augment either.
— Jeremy Tharp (Tags: knowledge, belief, the pursuit of truth, suspension of belief, suspension of disbelief)
Life is simple addition — give and take. For example, every moron needs a lesson.
— Jeremy Tharp (Tags: morons, lessons, life, mathematics, addition, simplicity)
Given an infinite venue, improbability becomes certainty.
— Jeremy Tharp (Tags: infinity, the improbably, certainty)
