All things are relative, but some are more relative than others.
You are an ideologue if your views can be inferred from your vocabulary.
Writers can write nonsense without ill effect. It is when readers put up with, then expect, and finally demand it that civilization ends.
Elite political opinion is influential because it is believed to be. When the belief disappears, so does the influence.
You can have nice things, or you can let everybody use them.
Knowing that we are not well, we hastily conclude that we are ill.
To lose one’s money folly used to be enough; today it also requires ambition.
Great innovations appear made by many simultaneously, because we consign to obscurity anyone more than a week or two ahead of his time.
Your counterexample is my special circumstance in which the stipulated conditions do not obtain.
The medieval church had a juster claim as guardian of the life of the mind than the contemporary university.