QUOTATIONS by VALERIU BUTULESCU

Butulescu Quotations

History. So many fossilized lies.

I am seldom bored and never by myself.

The way to some ideals leads downwards.

The death. Is it a full stop or a comma?

The city is a graveyard for living people.

Just like a bee, I can strike deeply only once.

Our living is not always proof of our existence

We only have hope left. Nobody wanted to buy it.

Any intelligent believer has his moments of doubt.

I have a lot of courage, but I am afraid to use it.

Laziness must be very tiring. Lazy people rest most.

To define nothingness, you will need a lot of words.

Some people's wealth exceeds their ability to count.

As a rule, after a high obstacle there comes an abyss.

Tell me what you read, and I will tell you who you are.

In order to be given wings, I had to promise not to fly.

Lord, I prefer Hell, if it is connected to the Internet.

Whenever he gets off a plane, he becomes an atheist again.

Hatred lingers in obscure souls as snow on sunless slopes.

So utterly poor was he, that he did not even have enemies.

Honorary heroes great experts in the theory of danger.

Days full of hope separated by nights of sleep. Man's life.

Just like the stag's horns, wisdom is a cumbersome ornament.

The thirst for light often cuts short the wings of the moth.

The level of culture is so high that people fight for books.

Culture seems to be an occupational disease with some people.

What we call rottenness is just the return to inorganic eternity

The ideal of any man is to earn more money than his wife can spend.

I will love my fellow man, but he had better keep his distance.

The most difficult thing is to make people think. Or not think at all

If you lend wings to a bureaucrat, he will only get to his office faster.

Many enemies, just like germs, are invincible because of their smallness

When you feel you are drowning, you should not speak of mutual assistance.

Mythology. The owl sleeps all day long and passes for the symbol of wisdom.

There is no greater misfortune than being born, except not being born at all

Ignorance is the heaviest of burdens, yet he who bears it is not aware of it.

I am not afraid in a graveyard by night, but I am afraid in a stadium by day.

You can demonstrate that white is black, but you will need vast bibliography.

Lucky is the man who passes away in his sleep. He shall never know he has died.

We know death from books so well that I sometimes wonder why we are still dying.

When a cannibal devours himself, it is no longer cannibalism but self-sacrifice.

There is a poetry of the things that appeal to us without having any meaning at all.

Science has not done away with cruelty. It has only given it a scientific character.

A man of experience gives advice. Each piece of advice means a new experience to him.

You must have a thorough knowledge of the mechanism of banality to be able to rise above it.

The earth? A cosmic accident. The life? A chemical accident. The man? A biological accident.

There is a sinister kind of color � blindness when the dark side of things is seen as bright.

I have been thinking of death all my life. When I die, they are sure to say I had a premonition.

I have been asked where I gather these thoughts from. I must admit: from my own head, a private property.

I used to have a sickly friend who would move heaven and earth to get old sooner for fear of dying young.

I want to be embalmed - not that I believe in the life to come - only to spring a pleasant surprise on archeologists.

Certain ideas are like the tattoos of youth; we can not get rid of them no matter how much ashamed of them we might be.

Nature errs, for indeed, it is an error to place so many aspirations and so much thirst for life in a frail and perishable body.

Shall we ever be able to fathom the mysteries of the Universe with only the five senses which Nature has temporarily entrusted to us?

Is that evolution? We have made ourselves clothes and lost our fur; we have made ourselves fur caps and lost our hair; we have made ourselves computers and only the devil knows what we are going to lose next

Water. The poorer it is, the purer.

When life gets inertia, the years are running.

Democracy- the autocracy of those chosen.

Monotheism. To replace thousands of small disillusions with a great one,

A responsible being is never absolutely free.

The ignorant does not know. The fool found it out but does not understand.

I belong to the most evolved species of predators. I am a Human.

My God differs from that commercialized by the Church.

The religions have evolved constantly, from heresy to heresy.

Identity. Everybody’s official mask.

Populism wants to move the Center somewhere to the periphery.

The voluptuousness of corruption: money plus a dose of adrenaline.

Religious intolerance- we are angry with those who believe in fantasies that differ from ours.

Autobiography- a colored picture of a grey life.

Ethics is like a wall made of flowers. Behind it hides the huge slaughterhouse of reality.

Demagogy is most convincing in choral formulas.

Candles we are; and we burn painfully up to the last drop of light.

THE DIRTIEST F-WORD.

There are words I like, there are words I dislike, words I hate, and eventually there is this one, perhaps the worst of all. It may be quite strange why it scares angers, confuses me – actually it seems a decent, popular word, many millions of people are very proud to represent or impersonate it. It is used and abused. Practically very few people will consider it being something bad and harmful. It memefies, it mobifies, it sheepifies. It is submission, addiction, capitulation, a form of slavery. It is everywhere, “they” are omni-present. Teams have them, individuals generate, cumulate them..

To possess XXXs (lots of) it is considered a sign of personal value and recognition. Actually the word is extremely dangerous and damaging- due to it you are losing voluntarily your supreme asset- your Ego, your identity, your personality- in many cases irreversibly. Take care, avoid it!

The standard F-word has 4 letters, is a verb describing an action, indispensable and practically irreplaceable for our existence and especially for the renewal of the existence. Actually it is a cultural perversity to consider it something ugly or dirty. It is simply idiotic, only minds and cultures obsessed by the idea of sin (an artificial form of evil, used for covering true evils) - can imagine such a monstrosity. Those unhappy people, who are prohibited from this creative verb, are thinking doing, sooner or later- dreadful things. Ask the …(Censored).

The really dirtiest F-word is a noun, has 3 letters, and its plural XXXs is very frequently used. The quantity (and the money!) of the XXXs is much more important than their quality. If XXXs are slavishly obedient, it is the best. Is means of mass control and manipulation. Critical XXXs, rational XXXs, intelligent XXXs, thinking XXXs are all impossible or explosive oxymorons. XXXs practice the worst forms of post-logical thinking.

XXXship is a form of popular idolatry. By far the most dangerous and evil human beings are the XXXanatics- they don’t know reason or mercy.

Along the history, the dark forces of oppressions have used the systematic the XXXatization of the masses to dominate and to acquire personal privileges.

A lion’s share of Mankind’s wicked or intractable problems were and still are created by XXXatics.

To become a XXX can give direction, content, aim and sense to an empty life and can generate feelings of very high intensity. Usually enthusiasm, violence, irrational ecstasy, mass depersonalization. Nice young, smart people hit by XXXship are converted in cruel beasts with negative values of IQ, releasing huge quantities of evil and destructive energy. The XXXs are noisy by definition. The danger of deadly stampedes is always present at the gatherings of XXXs.

Dictators, politicians, celebrities, sport teams, musical bands like it, cannot exist without XXXs- more precisely without their money. Unfortunately, the great Internet social networks promote XXXship successfully. in the most profitable ways- but not the XXXs take the profit, on the contrary they pay.. XXXship is

kind of a super-bandit asking not “money or life!” but “money and life!”

This dirtiest and the most noble F word  (friend) have two letters in common.

  XXX-ship does irreparable damages to the fragile Egos of young people. It is a trap, both intellectual and sentimental. Instead of making them grown-ups, it causes them to grow down.

Fighting against XXXship has the same chances as stopping astrology or conspiracy theories. But I am optimistic, 500 years will suffice to eradicate

this ticket to disasters. It will cease to be part of the culture, I bet.

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Memecracy- now an official English word.

See please:
http://wordinfo.info/results?searchString=memecracy

Memecracy is now an official English word. It is one of the most powerful
concepts determining the thinking, actions and destiny of billions
of people- the future of Mankind. As long we are the slaves or servants
of memes, my most pessimistic septoe:

"Future is bright, but not for Humanity"

will be true. The great majority of memes and all killer memes
are located in the right, emotional hemisphere of our brains.
Addiction to memes determines us to believe the most impossible
things and to do the  most evil deeds thinking we are doimg Good.

Metaknowledge

The brains of Bisinis are great consumers of concepts, and this
one seems to be especially tasty for them, but for many other thinkers too.

Metaknowledge- essential for leveraging scientific research:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/metaknowledge-essential-for-leveraging-scientific-research


Let's see if it will become a (good) meme.

The length of the words

We, the mini-minority of Bisinis ( i.e. people with two left brain)
hemispheres- understand and like words- but have some problems
with sounds and images.

I love words, for me the paper of the week is this one:

Wordly wisdom What determines the length of words? MIT rese

archers say they know: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/words-count-0210.html

An other candidate for Motto

An old sayimg:
"My favorite sport is swimmimg, my favorite meta-sport is swimming counter-stream." (Peter Gluck)

Meta-sport belongs to and defines the very soul of sports

Searching a MOTTO for this blog

A high-class blog needs a wise Motto. Or, perhaps not?
I am thinking about choosing one, I am very fond of good quotations.

The first candidate is:

"I prefer the Hell, if it is connected to the Internet. (Valeriu Butulescu)


Butulescu is a world level Romanian author of aphorisms; these are translated in some 30 languages
but it is some delay with English. I just have received  two of his recent books and will
translate his sayings systematically for you, he posseses the high art of expressing a maximum
of number of ideas with a minimum number of words (highest idea density, technically speaking!)
Just take his Life = hungry matter.  If you add: And edible too- you get the best definition
of Life. Usable by biologists ad evolutionists.
An other mottoizable Butulescu aphorism:

"These pages, the black box of my short flight."


Many more will come. I am still shocked, positively by the Bologna event despite of knowing well
that it is possible- Prof. Piantelli has done it too for a more restricted public.

an other definition by Mihail Ralea

Mihail Ralea has defined seriousness in the following way:


"To be serious means to be be focussed on the core of the things and not on the undefined halo of trivia hovering around them"


True, many times tragically true!

the first seed

Soon I will present  you my system of thinking and problem solving; an important characteristic of these is the emphasis on the negative, on what is missing, is absent, has to be found or created.
The very first idea that lead me here is a definition.
I have collaborated - during the'80s- with a bright psychologist, Dr Tibor Kulcsar - his specialty was the study of intelligence. Soon I have realized that intelligence is very difficult to define. There are some tens of definitions, all incomplete- or on the contrary, extending
beyond the limits of this complex concept. Eventually I have concluded that the best definition is a negative one by the Romanian
thinker Mihail Ralea: 
"To be intelligent means to NOT mix (confuse) the points of view"


I was prepared for the next step- negative discoveries.

I have learned a new word, here:

http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2010/12/dear-company-leadership-i-have-been.html

"Don't let me become a bosshole!

Cannot be translated, not nice, but very expresive.