A Curated Collection
of Beloved Aphorisms from
Dandiananda, The Sage of the West.

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Life is but a small part of Art.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Sometimes the most open mind is firmly shut.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Faith is but a nightlight for those afraid of the dark.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
There are no Mondays in the universe.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
You have to let go, to better hold on.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
There is nothing so loud as silence.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Never let reality intrude upon your dreams.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Life is Myth.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
The best advice is not to give advice.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
We are so much more, when we believe so much less.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Why think outside the box, when there is no box?
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Never confuse accolade for accomplishment.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Be as concerned with your death as you were with your birth.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
You can love and be loved by a dog, but you can only worship a cat.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
A leaf, falling to the ground, does not add to the weight of the world.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
We feel it, but no one has ever seen the wind.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
What does not serve us must be abandoned.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
All religions share the false belief that death is a state of being.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Sorrow and happiness often share a bed.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
One can never have too much beauty.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Art is not entertainment.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Love before Death, and Art above all.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
The eating of animals is as reprehensible as it is indefensible.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Life owes you nothing.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Fate is simply what happens.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
The only thing we can read in the stars is our cosmic insignificance.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
To remember the essential you must forget the mundane.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Come winter, Death gains a step on us all.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
At this moment, on a billion planets, revolving around a million distant suns, another sorry creature, invents another insignificant god.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
People are most jealous when you love yourself.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
To understand the rain you must get wet.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Your possessions possess you.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Love makes sweet fools of us all.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Philosophy unlived is mere observation.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Action, never prayer.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Many are called but few are chosen.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Most “free spirits” are chained to a desk.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
A million praying people can’t accomplish the work of a single doctor.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Without limits on wealth you get limitless poverty.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
If you got out of bed this morning, you are an optimist.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Prayer is a conversation between the delusional and the nonexistent.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
I love everything about opera except the singing.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
I am an Artist, a minor sort of god.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Philanthropy is giving dry bread to those dying of thirst.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Truth: the unwelcome stranger, the uninvited guest.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Beauty kills, she takes no prisoners.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Racism. Sexism. Speciesism. The only difference is the victim.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Genius suffers no compromise.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
The words "religion" and "cult" are synonyms.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Love is the subjugation of self.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Somewhere, in a distant galaxy, a rogue asteroid begins a billion year journey towards Earth, bringing our unnoticed and meaningless annihilation.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Wisdom is often a little late.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Love is not friendship.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Give everyone a chance, some a second, and none a third.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
True nobility needs no titles.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Real sincerity requires the most consummate acting.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
People who don't hold a grudge keep it in their back pocket.
 ~ DANDIANANDA

Genius doesn't pay the rent.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
The voice of reason is quickly drowned out by the choir of idiots.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
You will learn more from the King's Fool than from the King.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Nothing of real value is for sale.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Art has its own truth.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
True love is fatal and reserved for poets.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Finish things or they will finish you.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
There is nothing quite so pleasing as quoting oneself.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
The true Artist has an audience of one.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Defund the rich.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Artificial intelligence is fine, our problem is natural stupidity.
 ~ DANDIANANDA

Time is NOT money, that's why we have two different words.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Why read between the lines when there's nothing written there?
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Evil, a form of disorder, never lasts.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Bravery needs but an instant, cowardice lasts forever.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Alcohol is a sad and pathetic religion.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
You arrive sooner when you have no destination.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
All our tears flow into the same ocean.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Young men die for old men's politics.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
To best enjoy a party, come late and leave early.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
A tattoo on a beautiful woman is vandalism.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Our smallest actions make or unmake us.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
When you fall, and you will certainly fall, get back on your horse.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
Truth simply exists, but lies need to be created.
 ~ DANDIANANDA
The Artist’s primary relationship is with their art.
 ~ DANDIANANDA