Humanity, n. Quality or condition of being human; lowest common denominator.
Nov 282018
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Nov 272018
The solitary man affronts, preferring his own company to yours.
Nov 202018
Romanticism is the idea that we should express our inner self; classicism, that we have no inner self to express.
Nov 162018
It is difficult to hear those who can’t speak for themselves over the din of those who presume to speak for them.
Nov 092018
Things are so much as they seem that good-looking people really are more virtuous.
Nov 062018
When we gaze at something else we glimpse ourselves.
Oct 232018
The young, though immortal, are in a dreadful hurry.
Oct 172018
We used to suspect that our friends and neighbors were mad, and now, thanks to modern technology, we know they are.
Oct 112018
It’s surface all the way down.
Oct 012018
By learning our own thoughts and feelings we have made ourselves only partly miserable; by learning everyone else’s we will finish the job.