Insanity is a subtle and marvelous logician.
Feb 222022
Feb 212022
Some anonymous wit once said he didn’t care what you did as long as you didn’t do it in the street and frighten the horses. The West is embarking on its second century of frightening the horses.
Feb 182022
Beware the too-helpful, who have nothing better to do.
Feb 172022
Every vote is in favor of the election, every abstention is opposed.
Feb 162022
Small lies must be plausible; big lies must be vivid.
Feb 152022
Official authorities wonder endlessly why they are reviled and distrusted without ever arriving at the notion that they may be vile and untrustworthy.
Feb 142022
To be a citizen of the world is less, not more, than to be a European; and to be a European is less, not more, than to be an Italian, or a German, or a Greek.
Feb 112022
Civilization can never be other than a brief local interlude; it creates the conditions for its own destruction.
Feb 102022
Improvement rarely begins in reflection on how wonderful you already are.
Feb 092022
If a discipline purports to be a science, yet has not produced a universal law to which all of its practitioners agree, it is just giving itself airs.