Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Interpretation
A bigot stubbornly holds onto their beliefs, often dismissing opposing views.
This quote highlights the nature of bigotry, emphasizing the inflexible commitment individuals can have to their own beliefs. It portrays bigots as people who are not open to alternative perspectives, leading to a narrow and often intolerant worldview that disregards the opinions and experiences of others.
In practice
In a discussion about tolerance at a community event.
PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'
Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
Live or die but don't poison everything.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.
There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes?
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