"I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity."
- John Malkovich
al·ter
– verb
1. to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like; modify.
2. to change; become different or modified.
al·tar
– noun
1. an elevated place or structure, as a mound or platform, at which religious rites are performed or on which sacrifices are offered to gods, ancestors, etc.
2. the constellation Ara.
A·ra
– noun
1. a southern constellation between Triangulum Australe and Scorpius.
2. "The Altar."
per·vert
– verb
1. to affect with perversion.
2. to lead astray morally.
3. to turn away from the right course.
4. to lead into mental error or false judgment.
5. to turn to an improper use; misapply.
6. to misconstrue or misinterpret, esp. deliberately; distort.
7. to bring to a less excellent state; vitiate; debase.
8. to change to what is unnatural or abnormal.
9. to convert or persuade to a religious belief regarded as false or wrong.
– noun
10. a person affected with perversion.
11. a person who has been perverted, esp. to a religious belief regarded as erroneous.
sac·ri·lege
– noun
1. the violation or profanation of anything sacred or held sacred.
2. an instance of this.
3. the stealing of anything consecrated to the service of God.
gen·er·al
– adj.
1. of or pertaining to all persons or things belonging to a group or category.
2. of, pertaining to, or true of such persons or things in the main, with possible exceptions; common to most; prevalent; usual.
3. not limited to one class, field, product, service, etc.; miscellaneous.
4. considering or dealing with overall characteristics, universal aspects, or important elements, esp. without considering all details or specific aspects.
5. not specific or definite.
6. having extended command or superior or chief rank.
– noun
7. the chief official.
- idiom
8. in general,
a. with respect to the whole class referred to; as a whole.
b. as a rule; usually.
spe·cif·ic
– adj.
1. having a special application, bearing, or reference; specifying, explicit, or definite.
2. specified, precise, or particular.
3. peculiar or proper to somebody or something, as qualities, characteristics, effects, etc.
4. of a special or particular kind.
5. concerned specifically with the item or subject named..
6. of or pertaining to a species.
7. a. produced by a special cause or infection.
b. having special effect in the prevention or cure of a certain disease.
8. having a particular effect on only one antibody or antigen or affecting it in only one way.
9. noting customs or duties levied in fixed amounts per unit, as number, weight, or volume.
10. a. designating a physical constant that, for a particular substance, is expressed as the ratio of the quantity in the substance to the quantity in an equal volume of a standard substance, as water or air.
b. designating a physical constant that expresses a property or effect as a quantity per unit length, area, volume, or mass.
– noun
11. something specific, as a statement, quality, detail, etc.
rea·son
– noun
1. a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.
2. a statement presented in justification or explanation of a belief or action.
3. the mental powers concerned with forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences.
4. sound judgment; good sense.
5. normal or sound powers of mind; sanity.
6. a premise of an argument.
7. a. the faculty or power of acquiring intellectual knowledge, either by direct understanding of first principles or by argument.
b. the power of intelligent and dispassionate thought, or of conduct influenced by such thought.
c. the faculty by which the ideas of pure reason are created.
– verb
8. to think or argue in a logical manner.
9. to form conclusions, judgments, or inferences from facts or premises.
10. to urge reasons which should determine belief or action.
11. to think through logically, as a problem.
12. to conclude or infer.
13. to convince, persuade, etc.
“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”
- Stephen Hawking
- Stephen Hawking
o·pin·ion
– noun
1. a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
2. a personal view, attitude, or appraisal.
3. the formal expression of a professional judgment.
4. the formal statement by a judge or court of the reasoning and the principles of law used in reaching a decision of a case.
5. a judgment or estimate of a person or thing with respect to character, merit, etc..
6. a favorable estimate; esteem.
es·ti·mate
– verb
1. to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately.
2. to form an opinion of; judge.
3. guess.
–noun
4. an approximate judgment or calculation, as of the value, amount, time, size, or weight of something.
5. a judgment or opinion, as of the qualities of a person or thing.
6. a statement of the approximate charge for work to be done, submitted by a person or business firm ready to undertake the work.
cal·cu·late
– verb
1. to determine or ascertain by mathematical methods; compute.
2. to determine by reasoning, common sense, or practical experience; estimate; evaluate; gauge.
3. to make suitable or fit for a purpose; adapt.
4. a. to think; guess.
b. to intend; plan.
“One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.”
- Norman Mailer
- Norman Mailer
“I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.”
- Gustave Courbet
- Gustave Courbet
tool
– noun
1. an implement, esp. one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
2. any instrument of manual operation.
3. the cutting or machining part of a lathe, planer, drill, or similar machine.
4. the machine itself.
5. anything used as a means of accomplishing a task or purpose.
6. a person manipulated by another for the latter's own ends; cat's-paw.
7. the design or ornament impressed upon the cover of a book.
8. a. a pistol or gun.
b. a pickpocket.
code
– noun
1. a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message.
2. a system used for brevity or secrecy of communication, in which arbitrarily chosen words, letters, or symbols are assigned definite meanings.
3. any set of standards set forth and enforced by a local government agency for the protection of public safety, health, etc., as in the structural safety of buildings, health requirements for plumbing, ventilation, etc., and the specifications for fire escapes or exits.
4. a systematically arranged collection or compendium of laws, rules, or regulations.
5. any authoritative, general, systematic, and written statement of the legal rules and principles applicable in a given legal order to one or more broad areas of life.
6. a word, letter, number, or other symbol used in a code system to mark, represent, or identify something.
7. the symbolic arrangement of statements or instructions in a computer program in which letters, digits, etc. are represented as binary numbers; the set of instructions in such a program.
creed
– noun
1. any system, doctrine, or formula of religious belief, as of a denomination.
2. any system or codification of belief or of opinion.
ar·ray
– verb
1. to place in proper or desired order; marshal.
2. to clothe with garments, esp. of an ornamental kind; dress up; deck out.
– noun
3. order or arrangement, as of troops drawn up for battle.
4. military force, esp. a body of troops.
5. a large and impressive grouping or organization of things.
6. regular order or arrangement; series.
7. a large group, number, or quantity of people or things.
8. attire; dress.
9. an arrangement of interrelated objects or items of equipment for accomplishing a particular task.
10. a. an arrangement of a series of terms according to value, as from largest to smallest.
b. an arrangement of a series of terms in some geometric pattern, as in a matrix.
ma·trix
– noun
1. something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops.
2. a formative part.
3. a. the intercellular substance of a tissue.
b. ground substance.
4. the fine-grained portion of a rock in which coarser crystals or rock fragments are embedded.
5. fine material, as cement, in which lumps of coarser material, as of an aggregate, are embedded.
6. gangue.
7. a crystalline phase in an alloy in which other phases are embedded.
8. a mold for casting typefaces.
9. master.
10. a multiple die or perforated block on which the material to be formed is placed.
11. a rectangular array of numbers, algebraic symbols, or mathematical functions, esp. when such arrays are added and multiplied according to certain rules.
12. a rectangular display of features characterizing a set of linguistic items, esp. phonemes, usually presented as a set of columns of plus or minus signs specifying the presence or absence of each feature for each item.
spe·cial
– adj.
1. of a distinct or particular kind or character.
2. being a particular one; particular, individual, or certain.
3. pertaining or peculiar to a particular person, thing, instance, etc.; distinctive; unique.
4. having a specific or particular function, purpose, etc.
5. distinguished or different from what is ordinary or usual.
6. extraordinary; exceptional, as in amount or degree.
7. being such in an exceptional degree; particularly valued.
rare
– adj.
1. coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon.
2. thinly distributed over an area; few and widely separated.
3. having the component parts not closely compacted together; not dense.
4. unusually great.
5. unusually excellent; admirable; fine.
u·nique
– adj.
1. existing as the only one or as the sole example; single; solitary in type or characteristics.
2. having no like or equal; unparalleled; incomparable.
3. limited in occurrence to a given class, situation, or area.
4. limited to a single outcome or result; without alternative possibilities.
5. not typical; unusual.
re·volt
– verb
1. to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny.
2. to turn away in mental rebellion, utter disgust, or abhorrence.
3. to rebel in feeling.
4. to feel horror or aversion
5. to affect with disgust or abhorrence.
– noun
6. the act of revolting; an insurrection or rebellion.
7. an expression or movement of spirited protest or dissent.
cir·cum·fer·ence
– noun
1. the outer boundary, esp. of a circular area; perimeter.
2. the length of such a boundary.
3. the area within a bounding line.
pe·rim·e·ter
– noun
1. the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
2. the length of such a boundary.
3. a line bounding or marking off an area.
4. the outermost limits.
“Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together. If the man permits himself to be led by this ineffable attraction, good fortune will come his way.”
- I Ching
- I Ching
“A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.”
- I Ching
- I Ching
“I always felt that if I had super-power, I wouldn't immediately run out to the store and buy a costume.”
- Stan Lee
- Stan Lee
"Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job."
- Stanley Kubrick
- Stanley Kubrick
"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Hunter S. Thompson
"The criminal and the soldier at least have the virtue of being against something or for something in a world where many people have learned to accept a kind of grey nothingness, to strike an unreal series of poses in order to be considered normal.... It's difficult to say who is engaged in the greater conspiracy--the criminal, the soldier, or us."
- Stanley Kubrick
- Stanley Kubrick
du·al·i·ty
– noun
1. a dual state or quality.
2. a symmetry within a mathematical system such that a theorem remains valid if certain objects, relations, or operations are interchanged, as the interchange of points and lines in a plane in projective geometry.
sym·me·try
– noun
1. the correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane, line, or point; regularity of form or arrangement in terms of like, reciprocal, or corresponding parts.
2. the proper or due proportion of the parts of a body or whole to one another with regard to size and form; excellence of proportion.
3. beauty based on or characterized by such excellence of proportion.
4. a. a geometrical or other regularity that is possessed by a mathematical object and is characterized by the operations that leave the object invariant.
b. a rotation or translation of a plane figure that leaves the figure unchanged although its position may be altered.
5. a property of a physical system that is unaffected by certain mathematical transformations as, for example, the work done by gravity on an object, which is not affected by any change in the position from which the potential energy of the object is measured.
u·ni·ty
– noun
1. the state of being one; oneness.
2. a whole or totality as combining all its parts into one.
3. the state or fact of being united or combined into one, as of the parts of a whole; unification.
4. absence of diversity; unvaried or uniform character.
5. oneness of mind, feeling, etc., as among a number of persons; concord, harmony, or agreement.
6. a. the number one; a quantity regarded as one.
b. identity.
7. a relation of all the parts or elements of a work constituting a harmonious whole and producing a single general effect.
i·den·ti·ty
– noun
1. the state or fact of remaining the same one or ones, as under varying aspects or conditions.
2. the condition of being oneself or itself, and not another.
3. condition or character as to who a person or what a thing is.
4. the state or fact of being the same one as described.
5. the sense of self, providing sameness and continuity in personality over time and sometimes disturbed in mental illnesses, as schizophrenia.
6. exact likeness in nature or qualities.
7. an instance or point of sameness or likeness.
8. an assertion that two terms refer to the same thing.
9. a. an equation that is valid for all values of its variables.
b. an element in a set such that the element operating on any other element of the set leaves the second element unchanged.
c. the property of a function or map such that each element is mapped into itself.
d. the function or map itself.
10. an interesting, famous, or eccentric resident, usually of long standing in a community.
faux
– adj.
1. artificial or imitation; fake.
fake
– verb
1. prepare or make something specious, deceptive, or fraudulent.
2. to conceal the defects of or make appear more attractive, interesting, valuable, etc., usually in order to trick or deceive.
3. to pretend; simulate.
4. to accomplish by trial and error or by improvising.
5. a. to improvise.
b. to play music without reading from a score.
– noun
6. anything made to appear otherwise than it actually is; counterfeit.
7. a person who fakes; faker.
8. a spurious report or story.
9. a simulated play or move intended to deceive an opponent.
– adj.
10. designed to deceive or cheat; not real.
"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."
- Stanley Kubrick
- Stanley Kubrick
"I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was."
- Stanley Kubrick
- Stanley Kubrick
"The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God."
- D.T. Suzuki
- D.T. Suzuki
"In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning."
- Jean Baudrillard
- Jean Baudrillard
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