Jack R. Ernest > Quotes

“You don’t have to do anything in life except die.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“The prisoner is enslaved by steel bars. The free person is paralysed by debt, image, morality and family.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“I see on various internet forums, people talking about their “inadequate” mental health. They are depressed, anxious, worried etc. But they blame their minds. Not one person has ever blamed the economic system that causes their deterioration. That is how brainwashed they are on the system, that they blame themselves for what is the systems flaw.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“We are either regretting the past or dreaming of a warmer future. Either way, we neglect the present.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Find your own voice before you grow old and lose it altogether. You achieve far more in life by being who you are and never letting others choose who you are. Own yourself above all else.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“current economic environment that is adopted by mankind, makes one insecure and to be truly liberated one must be anonymous.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“A continuous source of woe is that you continuously compare yourself to others.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion” - Soren Kierkegaard.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“We are all identical because the education tyranny has deprived us of the ability to critically think.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Your duty if any should be to leave this world in a better place than when you first found it. The life of a human is no more valuable than that of a farmed chicken and as you read this sentence three thousand have been slaughtered.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“he must be the architect of his own renaissance.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“When was the last time you woke up and the first sentence in your mind was: “How lucky am I to be alive in this universe?” Never I would imagine. Now why don’t you think in such a nihilistic grateful manner?”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“I don’t see any resolution to this conflict. The economic system must change before man can change.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“There is no journey to happiness. Happiness is the journey.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely - at least, not all the time - but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look into the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” – Hunter S Thompson.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself.” - Emil Cioran.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.” - Noam Chomsky.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“You can always tell the immature in that they value human life above that of all other animals.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“We don’t have a rape culture; we have a narcissistic culture. And with narcissism accompanies entitlement and with entitlement accompanies violence.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” - Henry David Thoreau.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“You are as much a potential perpetrator as you are a potential victim. It depends on how you are labelled.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” - Margaret Mead.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Natural curiosity is the finest educator of all. 99% of people on this planet are machines and will not achieve anything of note in their existence. They will just get up for work, work and come home and go to sleep.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“We are still animals and yet to be called an animal would be an insult. That is the ego of man (particularly the narcissist). He believes that because he can speak, walk, build skyscrapers, see into the atom and much more that this planet is his entitlement.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Social media only makes people more afraid. It only makes them conform more. Not alone do we have friends, family and co-workers telling us how to behave; we also have people we don’t know on social media telling us how we should behave. The more your identity is known by the tribe, the more you will be duped into conforming.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“If you are lonely when alone, you are in bad company.” - Jean-Paul Sartre.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“You are your own god and your own executioner; it is your own thoughts that make you who you are. Every animal on this planet has it bad except one: Man. We don’t realize how good we have it.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Gratitude and narcissism are mutually exclusive. They are at the opposite ends of the spectrum. The more narcissistic you are, the less gratitude you convey; likewise, the more grateful you are, the less narcissistic you become.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“It is not science or religion that will annihilate us. It is economics.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“The want to be desired is a nicer way of saying you want to be someone else.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity