Impossible to love our neighbor as ourselves: conceivable to doubt ourselves as our neighbor.
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Some men I would trust with my life, others with returning a borrowed book, almost none with both.
One’s thought does not reflect one’s disposition. It complements one’s disposition.
The trouble with cellphones isn’t that they allow us to ignore each other, it’s that they don’t.
The cure for division is not discussion but secession.
Not so very long ago, no adult in history had ever spoken of himself as the parent of an animal.
When a bad thing happens in the world, it is vanishingly unlikely to be any of your business.
An expert torturer always reminds you that it’s for your own good, and hurts him more than you.
Not everything is as dumb as it looks, but that’s the way to bet.
Truth or meaning: Choose one.