You understand another language not when you can translate it, but when you no longer have to.
Feb 132015
You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
You understand another language not when you can translate it, but when you no longer have to.
The modern world does not create our ills; it only drags them into the light.
Moral equality is to equality what moral victory is to victory.
Great geniuses possess no extraordinary qualities, only ordinary qualities in exceptional measure.
A culture without shame has its disadvantages, but it is rough on blackmailers.
People never appreciate how I cringe for them.
In psychiatry the diagnosis becomes the disease.
For purposes of conversation the world can be divided into two classes: too young to talk, and too old to listen.
The conservative rarely vouches for the health of the patient; he merely prefers the disease to the cure.
Irony is the last vestige of aristocracy.