Criminal Minds...

Of late I have started to become a big fan of this serial. This crime thriller is very different from others as it tries to concentrate on the criminal rather than the crime. The plots are generally well written and the psycho analysis and profiling of the unsub revealing the insides of the mind which have committed the crime keeps one interested to the last. But the thing which I like most is that the episode starts with a an idiom setting up the context of the whole episode and ends with and idiom summarizing the episode or summarizing the lessons to be learnt from it(be it moral or any other virtue). What I will do is to try and list out all those idioms from each and every episode. A long drawn process but I think it is worth the effort. It has been able to have an influence on my mind and hoping it may have an effect on you to...So keep track of this post as I am going to update it after every episode I see..

Episode 1.1:
Joseph Conrad said, "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."

Emerson said, "All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle."

Winston Churchill said "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."

Nietzsche once said, "When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you."

Episode 1.2:
Faulkner once said, "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Episode 1.3:
Samuel Johnson wrote, "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."

Episode 1.4:
French poet Jacques Rigaut said, "Don't forget that I cannot see myself. My role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror."

Rose Kennedy once said, "Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them."

Episode 1.5:
Euripides said, "When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."

Euripides said, "When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness."

Episode 1.6:
Nietzsche wrote, "The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Shakespeare wrote, "Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."

Episode 1.7:
Gideon: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Episode 1.8:
Hemingway wrote, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else.”

Carl Jung said, "The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”

Episode 1.9:
Robert Oxton Bolt once wrote, "A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind."

Albert Einstein said, "The question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or the others crazy?"

Episode 1.10:
Eugene Ionesco said, "Ideology separates us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."

Sir Peter Ustinov said, "Unfortunately, a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."

Episode 1.11:
Harriet Beecher Stowe once said "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

Episode 1.12:
"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done," Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

"The poet, W. H. Auden wrote, 'Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.'"

Episode 1.13:
Roman philosopher Lucretius said, "What is food to one, is to others bitter poison."

Confucius once said, "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Episode 1.14:
Whosoever sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. (Genesis 9:6)

Albert Pine said, "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Episode 1.15:
Norman Maclean wrote, "It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."

Episode 1.16:
Nietzsche wrote, "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

Episode 1.17:
Gandhi said, "Better to be violent if there's violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."

Gandhi also said, "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent."

W. H. Auden said, "Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.

Episode 1.18:
Diane Arbus once said, "A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."

Bernard Shaw once said, "An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country."

Episode 1.19:
Anthony Brandt wrote, "Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."

Mexican proverb, “The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.”

Episode 1.20:
The author François de la Rochefoucauld wrote, "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."

The French philosopher Voltaire wrote, "There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."

Episode 1.21:
Albert Einstein said, "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

George Orwell said, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

Episode1.22:
Writer Elbert Hubbard said, "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

Episode 2.1:
"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind." French writer François de la Rochefoucauld.

"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." Rose Kennedy.

Episode 2.2:
Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer said "The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."

Episode 2.3:
Mark Twain wrote "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

Philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Episode 2.4:
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth," Oscar Wilde

"The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone," Milan Kundera

Episode 2.5:
Helen Keller once said "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

Episode 2.6:
Plato wrote "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Episode 2.7:
Legendary basketball coach John Wooden said: "It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it."
"The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate." Erich Fromm

Episode 2.8:
Robespierre wrote "Crime butchers innocence to secure a prize, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."

Episode 2.9:
Elbert Hubbard once wrote "If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate."

Mahatma Gandhi once said "All through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always."

Episode 2.10:
Dale Turner mused "Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future."

Ralph Waldo Emerson said "In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must, each day, surmount a fear."

Episode 2.11:
T.S. Eliot wrote "Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow."

T.S. Eliot wrote "Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends."


Episode 2.12:
All secrets are deep. (sic) All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets — writer Cory Doctorow.

Episode 2.13:
Aristotle said, "Evil brings men together."

Episode 2.14:
Condemned murderer Perry Smith said of his victims, the Clutter family "I didn't have anything against them and they never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my life. Maybe they're just the ones who have to pay for it."

Episode 2.15:
There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins. Ecclesiastes 7:20

Episode 2.16:
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate." Socrates

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." Cicero

Episode 2.17:
"Our life is made by the death of others." Leonardo da Vinci

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." Thomas Paine

Episode 2.18:
Robert Kennedy once said "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."

Episode 2.19:
"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul," John Calvin.

Gandhi said "Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever."

Episode 2.20:
An old Russian proverb reminds us, "There can be no good without evil."

"Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way," Leo Tolstoy.

Episode 2.21:
The British historian James Anthony Froude once said, "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."

Episode 2.22:
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." Herman Melville.

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles," Charles Chaplin.

Episode 2.23:
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellect." Oscar Wilde.