Everything – Page 119 – A book of aphorisms
Jun 252019
 

Discursive prose was a brief and happy interlude in human history: at the beginning were drums and chants, and so it shall be at the end.

Jun 242019
 

The idea that smoke implies fire cannot survive a professional class of industrious smoke merchants.

Jun 212019
 

A lot of people who don’t believe in God believe in Santa Claus.

Jun 202019
 

Bad people are a fertile and oft-neglected source of good ideas.

Jun 192019
 

Popular sovereignty democratizes everything but rule.

Jun 182019
 

Many famous and respectable men feel imprisoned by their reputation, and now and then one will say or do something to sabotage it, as a bear will gnaw off its leg to get out of a trap.

Jun 172019
 

It is natural to demand special consideration for your feelings if you can’t think.

Jun 132019
 

Populism is mostly the desire for better elites.

Jun 122019
 

Loyalty is two-thirds sloth and one-third poor alternatives.