It is easier to speak truth than to hear it.
Sep 122013
Lying
To a quite unwreckable Lie,
To a most impeccable Lie!
To a water-tight, fire-proof, angle-iron, sunk-hinge, time-lock, steel-faced Lie!
Not a private hansom Lie,
But a pair-and-brougham Lie,
Not a little-place-at-Tooting, but a country-house-with-shooting
And a ring-fence-deer-park Lie.
—-Kipling
Sep 112013
The most disinterested truth-seeker still angles for a world of greater rewards for disinterested truth-seekers.
Sep 042013
To be better it is first necessary to pretend to be; and objections to improvement often masquerade as objections to pretense.
Aug 302013
No one wants equality except with his betters.
Aug 262013
If you think about whether you are genuine, too late.
Aug 202013
We are such accomplished liars because we get so much practice on ourselves.
Jun 132013
The greater good is evil: the larger truth is a lie.
May 162013
To listen to people with talent, you might almost believe that there is no such thing.
Apr 302013
The stupid delude themselves that anything is possible; the clever, that whatever they cannot do cannot be done.
Apr 022013
Optimism is the philosophy of despair.