Everything – Page 118 – A book of aphorisms
Jul 092019
 

Your first reaction shows what you are. Your subsequent revisions show how much you dislike what you are.

Jul 082019
 

It is on the most dubious propositions that we lavish our most ardent desires.

Jul 042019
 

To be published in outlets of respectable opinion it is necessary to form respectable opinions.

Jul 032019
 

It is first necessary, if you wish to save the world, to eliminate anyone who can save himself.

Jul 022019
 

The fundamental freedom is of association: from it all others can be derived, without it all others are moot.

Jul 012019
 

To dominate someone is to think less often of him than he does of you, and to do this on a mass scale is fame.

Jun 282019
 

For those who flatter us we have many nasty names, but never liar.

Jun 272019
 

Pleasure lies chiefly in anticipation and retrospection, the experience itself being necessary to ensure that neither is spoiled.

Jun 262019
 

A bureaucracy, like a garage, should be hosed down periodically, to dislodge the stray bits of power accumulating in its crevices and corners like dust and dirt.