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 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.
The idea that smoke implies fire cannot survive a professional class of industrious smoke merchants.
A lot of people who don’t believe in God believe in Santa Claus.
Bad people are a fertile and oft-neglected source of good ideas.
Popular sovereignty democratizes everything but rule.
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.
It is natural to demand special consideration for your feelings if you can’t think.
Good requires the willingness, now and then, to look bad.
Populism is mostly the desire for better elites.
Loyalty is two-thirds sloth and one-third poor alternatives.