Too cool for deontology, too stupid for consequentialism.
Dec 272019
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Dec 192019
I find, with age, more and more people of whom I approve in theory but not in practice.
Dec 112019
The Principles of Practical Politics
1. Gain power
2. Keep power
3. Whatever you think your political principles are
Dec 102019
How he kills himself says a lot about a man.
Dec 022019
Feelings of inferiority are usually benign and amply justified; it’s feelings of superiority that are the menace.
Nov 272019
We have been taught to find ourselves, to lose ourselves, to love ourselves, respect ourselves, forgive ourselves: only our selves are lacking.
Nov 072019
Evils often cancel.
Nov 052019
What makes people imagine that “the best we can do” is any good at all?
Oct 092019
The less disposed we are to act on a belief, the more vehemently we defend it.
Oct 042019
There is dumb happiness, as well as dumb misery, and one ought to aim, not at more of the former or less of the latter, but at a better class of both.