Steve Madison > Quotes

“It's solely thanks to mathematics that existence is rational, explicable, intelligible. Existence has an answer only because it's a mathematical organism. It isn't a mathematical AI. It's not a dead computer. It's a living, purposeful intelligence, a Hive Mind made of individual, living minds, of which each of us is one.”
― Steve Madison, Transconsciousness

“Ontological Fourier mathematics is the complete mathematical explanation of Cartesian philosophy. It converts a substance dualism into a dual-aspect substance monism. There is only one substance - mathematics - but it can exist both dimensionlessly (as mind) and dimensionally (as matter, the product of mind). Mind adds the framing dimensions of space (extended real numbers) and time (extended imaginary numbers) to the unextended real and imaginary numbers of the frequency domain. (Ontologically, frequencies are not in space and time. They are instead the source of space and time).”
― Steve Madison, Transconsciousness

“All of anarchism, libertarianism, and anti-Statism can be traced back to the rise of Protestantism. The USA - founded by Protestants (often extremist Protestants expelled from their own countries) is where the love of the individual and hatred of the collective is practically written into its Constitution, which is extremely Protestant in its character.”
― Steve Madison, The Quality Agenda: The Search for Excellence

“The next common narcissists are trolls, those who think they're entitled to shit on the hard work of everyone else, and that their vacuous, moronic opinions are beliefs should be inflicted on everyone else. These dead-eyed knuckle-draggers are extremely annoying and also immensely harmful. They can do a huge amount of damage to new and growing movements, and that's exactly what motivates them. They love wrecking things.”
― Steve Madison, The Dark Triad: How the Psychopaths Took Control

“Why did the Roman Empire - the greatest civilizing force there has ever been - fall? It was because it became infected at every level by the negative liberty of Christianity. The Roman people started thinking of their personal salvation rather than their collective strength. Once the poison of individualism has spread among the people, Rome's fate was sealed. The collective collapsed. The Dark Ages came upon the West. Once the cohesion of the people has gone, everything fails.”
― Steve Madison, The Quality Agenda: The Search for Excellence

“Predatory capitalism makes you dehumanize people. America, by glorifying the elite individuals, dehumanizes everyone else. The "American Dream" is all about leaving the mass behind and joining the elite. It's no wonder America is so hostile to socialism. The very thing it dreams of, the very thing written into its cultural DNA, is its total contempt for the collective and total worship or the successful individual”
― Steve Madison, The Dark Triad: How the Psychopaths Took Control

“The only religion that could ever be taken seriously is rationalism religion. The likes of Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Hegel, and Godel have done the hard work necessary to make such a religion viable. Wouldn't you want a religion that every logician, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist on earth could embrace? In fact, that religion already exists. It's called ontological mathematics, predicated on the principle of sufficient reason and Occam's razor. It constitutes a coherent, holistic, a priori, rationalist, analytic, deductive religion, metaphysics and physics. Ontological mathematics explains all.”
― Steve Madison, Logos: Logical Religion Unleashed

“A people, not a parchment, and not a Supreme Court, must be the Constitution. The people are the walking, talking, living Constitution. Positive liberty is all about enshrining the Constitution in the citizens themselves. They live and breathe it, and always know how to do right by it.”
― Steve Madison, The Quality Agenda: The Search for Excellence

“It's not our government anymore.”
― Steve Madison, The Flight of the Mayday Squadron: An American Mythology

“In human societies, everyone is competing to get their story across, their version of events, their agenda, whatever serves their needs. All of history is just one vast, ever-mutating story.”
― Steve Madison, The Story of Your Life

“The default human policy is not to accept new ideas, not to at least give them a fair hearing, but to fear them, hate them, and try to shut them down as soon as possible.”
― Steve Madison, The Dark Triad: How the Psychopaths Took Control

“You cannot be enlightened unless you are a person of light and know that all is light, all is mind, all is life, all is math, all is thought, all is God. These all mean exactly the same thing.”
― steve madison, Logos: Logical Religion Unleashed

“Music is the perfect metaphor for mathematics. If you find it hard to grasp reality in mathematical terms, you will find that you can make incredible progress by instead thinking of it in musical terms, ad you will end up at more or less the same destination.”
― Steve Madison, The Musical Theory of Existence: Hearing the Music of the Spheres

“Find your passion in life. When you do things with your heart and soul, you do them effortlessly, no matter how hard you are working. Lead a driven life, a life with a purpose. Make a difference.”
― Steve Madison, What's Eating You?: How the World Is Screwing You Up

“People have a limited amount of attention, so whatever is in people's minds wins, and everyone else loses. Winner takes all. You know it.”
― Steve Madison, The Story of Your Life

“People embody their ideas. Their ideas become hardwired to their emotions, to their heart and gut. So, to change their ideas becomes as physically painful and traumatic as a catastrophic injury. The loss of a key idea is akin to a disabling amputation. And therefore people don't change and fiercely resist change.”
― Steve Madison

“People endorse negative liberty - the individual free of the State - and hate positive liberty - the individual harnessed by the State.”
― Steve Madison, The Quality Agenda: The Search for Excellence

“Is this what you want to have written on your gravestone? - "I watched all the top-trending YouTube videos." Well done. Gold Star. Sad.”
― Steve Madison, The Story of Your Life

“There are dumb religions for dumb people. These are the world's mainstream religions, all of which are untenable and formally falsified. There is a smart religion for smart people. It's ontological mathematics. No one can refute it. It is Absolute and infallible - because it is pure math.”
― Steve Madison, Logos: Logical Religion Unleashed

“Isn't it time you stood on the high steps, or in front of the podium, and started making your address to the world? What's your message? If you don't have one, what then?”
― Steve Madison, The Quality Agenda: The Search for Excellence

“Existence is mathematical music, and all of us are the instruments playing the cosmic symphony. Our task is simple - to arrive not at any old music, but the finest music that can possibly be played. The ideal music is reached when every player is in perfect harmony with every other player, and not a single discordant note is played.”
― Steve Madison, The Musical Theory of Existence: Hearing the Music of the Spheres

“No pain without gain. No triumph without tragedy. Things have to get worse before they get better. You must go down before you go up. Katabasis (going down) always precedes anabasis (going up).”
― Steve Madison, What's Eating You?: How the World Is Screwing You Up

“The universe is a collective mathematical composition, and we are all solo artists adding our own individual contribution.”
― Steve Madison, The Musical Theory of Existence: Hearing the Music of the Spheres

“All crises are an oppurtunity for transformation. Dante reached heaven by first undertaking the terribly journey through hell and purgatory. Can you get to heaven in one bound, or must you always experience hell first? Even Jesus Christ supposedly descended into hell before his resurrection.”
― Steve Madison, What's Eating You?: How the World Is Screwing You Up

“There is atheism for dumb people, and also atheism for smart people. The smart atheists - people well-versed in the philosophies of the likes of Schopenhauer, von Hartmann and Nietzsche - could easily migrate to ontological mathematics. The dumb atheists - blind followers of materialism, empiricism, and scientism - never could. To put it another way, atheism based on versions of idealism is so much smarter than atheism based on versions of materialism.”
― Steve Madison, Logos: Logical Religion Unleashed