James Rozoff Quotes

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

~ James Rozoff

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

~ James Rozoff

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

~ James Rozoff

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

~ James Rozoff

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

~ James Rozoff

What is wisdom? It is the result of multiple paradigms brought to their intellectual furthest reaches and balanced and merged together. The fundamentalist, the person who only sees life through a single lens, can never hope for wisdom.

~ James Rozoff

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

~ James Rozoff

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

~ James Rozoff

Where there is hope there is life.

~ James Rozoff

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

~ James Rozoff

A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.

~ James Rozoff

We have created a world we don’t like, don’t understand and don’t trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.

~ James Rozoff

My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background that are invariably more interesting than the ones they possess. And confirming this character to be uninteresting after a few minutes of conversation, I decide that they are unnecessary to my story and begin devising ways to kill them off.

~ James Rozoff

A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.

~ James Rozoff

Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world.

~ James Rozoff

Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

~ James Rozoff

Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

~ James Rozoff

Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others’ butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they’ve known for a lifetime.

~ James Rozoff

Intelligence resides between us as much as it resides in us. And it resides within the subconscious much more than it does the conscious. We’re just conscious-biased: our conscious mind wants us to think it’s the be all and end all.

~ James Rozoff

They are always the problem. There is no evil in this world you cannot blame on them. The world will never be right as long as they exist. Whereas we are right, we are always right. We desire to make the world a better place whereas they either consciously desire to make it worse or else are willing to make it so through wrong ideas. There is only one way to make the world we are trying to create, and that is to get rid of them, get rid of every last one of them. And the only way to do that is to stop creating them. Because there is no “they” until we choose to see someone as such. When we choose to see the humanity in everyone, then there is no more they, there is only us.

~ James Rozoff

The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.

~ James Rozoff

Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I’d be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.

~ James Rozoff

Those who rule have always had an interest in shaping the perceptions of those they wish to rule. But never in the history of humanity has their toolbox been so full. Advances in technology and psychology have enabled the messages of the rulers to permeate our consciousness to a degree no prior society could have imagined.

~ James Rozoff

Once you realize that life and love are not things you can possess but forces that emanate through us and through all creation, then you can begin to appreciate the miracle you are a part of. You can release the burden and appreciate what you have had, have now and will have. Only trying to hold on to what you do not have causes pain. Letting go permits you to experience the incredible joy that comes to you at each and every moment.

~ James Rozoff

I write pre-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, I’m not interested in a future where everything is blown to hell, I’d rather write something that helps to prevent it from happening.

~ James Rozoff

To be myself, to follow my desires to the best of my abilities. That’s the only end worth shooting for. Success and failure lie beyond us, they may be signposts that direct us, but they are foolish goals in themselves. To truly be who I have been made to be, made myself to be, ah, that is the only mission worthy of all the life that flows within.

~ James Rozoff

Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.

~ James Rozoff

Sooner or later you realize there are no answers, no answers except the ones you believe. Sooner or later faith is the only answer left.

~ James Rozoff

Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there's still something good in whatever's left.

~ James Rozoff

But failure and success are labels placed upon people’s lives the way a child values winning a game whether or not they have to bend the rules in order to do it. But life is not a game and the rules cannot be bent without repercussions that prove damaging later on. We must play the game for all we are worth, and we must play it fairly. We play and lose and play again, over and over. We lose and we pick up and start again a little wiser. We learn the game a little better in the playing, learn lessons for the next game. And should we lose today it is only a step towards the winning of the larger game. We move our piece on the board one step at a time, but it is all part of some larger process.

~ James Rozoff

He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.

~ James Rozoff

Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.

~ James Rozoff

To be young and to experience the feeling of being alive is a sweet feeling. To feel alive and to have a purpose and a goal to that life is better still.

~ James Rozoff

I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.

~ James Rozoff

There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past.

~ James Rozoff

Will is a gift from God, desire from the devil.

~ James Rozoff

You’ve got to stop thinking of consciousness as your own. You’re only thinking for yourself when you are by yourself. As soon as you are in the presence of others, your consciousness is linked at some level to those others.

~ James Rozoff

If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.

~ James Rozoff

Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.

~ James Rozoff

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.

~ James Rozoff