Mark Goldblatt > Quotes

“It's creepy because it reminds you that sooner or later you're going to die, that whatever you're good at now won't matter because you'll be dead and gone and no one will care.”
― Mark Goldblatt, Twerp

“That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, because in the end you have to live with yourself.”
― Mark Goldblatt

“The vocabulary and values of the Enlightenment have become the magnetic north of the world’s moral compass. Whenever a person, a community, or a nation feels aggrieved, their appeal to the conscience of humanity invokes reason, tolerance, or rights…even if their own cultures and traditions have not embraced those values.”
― Mark Goldblatt, I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism

“What I can say is that I have never met anyone who acted as though reality did not exist apart from our perceptions, who blithely strolled into oncoming traffic confident that his perceptions, the mere phenomena of his own consciousness, could do him no bodily harm. When asked his opinion of philosophical idealism, eighteenth-century British poet, playwright, literary critic, and inveterate wiseass Samuel Johnson famously kicked a stone and said, “I refute it thus.”
― Mark Goldblatt, I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism

“there’s no democracy of truth, no majority rule.”
― Mark Goldblatt, I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism

“What a teensy-weensy thing 'now' is, and what a gigantic thing 'never' is.”
― Mark Goldblatt, Finding the Worm

“Evidence and logic are the things that enable us to work through our filters, even though the filters never come off. The more attentive we are to evidence and logic, the less our filters distort what we see.”
― Mark Goldblatt, I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism

“Objective truth is revealed by a careful examination of evidence and the application of logic to that evidence. Objective truth is true regardless of our subjective feelings about it because it is anchored in the object of the belief or proposition; it is a relationship between out-there and in-here, an alignment between the two. Objective truth forces itself on us. Objective truth is oppressive, at times tyrannical. It’s not merely undemocratic; it’s anti-democratic.”
― Mark Goldblatt, I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism

“It is the never-ness that gets you.”
― Mark Goldblatt, Finding the Worm

“The common denominator in life is that in a thousand years, none of us is going to be here. Even if I were the fastest guy in the world, in a thousand years the result would be the same. I'd be dead and buried, and no one would remember or care.”
― Mark Goldblatt, Twerp