Being – Page 39 – Everything

Being

Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham

Oct 252013
 

Manners are the cargo cult of morals.

Sep 262013
 

Wisdom is the great consolation prize.

Sep 042013
 

To be better it is first necessary to pretend to be; and objections to improvement often masquerade as objections to pretense.

Aug 062013
 

Certain qualities — skepticism, iconoclasm, willpower — are fixed in quantity, and must be apportioned wisely.

Jul 082013
 

We can all be replaced, and we all are.

Jul 012013
 

Elision is the mother of decision.

Jun 282013
 

As sympathy broadens, it also shallows.

May 132013
 

We all want to be happy, just not at the expense of the qualities that make us unhappy.

Apr 242013
 

Personality varies like men’s fashion — a quarter-inch of width in the tie or length in the cuff.