Feelings of inferiority are usually benign and amply justified; it’s feelings of superiority that are the menace.
Dec 022019
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Nov 272019
We have been taught to find ourselves, to lose ourselves, to love ourselves, respect ourselves, forgive ourselves: only our selves are lacking.
Nov 072019
Evils often cancel.
Nov 052019
What makes people imagine that “the best we can do” is any good at all?
Oct 092019
The less disposed we are to act on a belief, the more vehemently we defend it.
Oct 042019
There is dumb happiness, as well as dumb misery, and one ought to aim, not at more of the former or less of the latter, but at a better class of both.
Sep 132019
When Bentham designed the Panopticon, he did not anticipate so many volunteers.
Sep 092019
You are not better than this. You are not worse than this. You are exactly this.
Sep 052019
Natural selection surely favors a disposition to attribute success to factors under one’s control.
Aug 222019
Everyone needs a reason to get up in the morning, and a drug habit is a compelling reason.