We don’t spend all of our time advertising for ourselves; sometimes we advertise for our tribe, and once in a while for the qualities that we imagine we possess.
Oct 122020
Self-Loving
We all come into this world with our little egos equipped with individual horns. If we don’t blow them, who will?
—DeWitt
Oct 092020
It’s so weird that there are people who do not have my exact tastes and interests.
Sep 282020
Thought-criminals, like regular ones, would escape punishment more often if they could manage not to boast of their exploits.
Sep 172020
To imagine oneself rejected on the basis of race, sex, or creed must be a great comfort, pushing away, as it does, the idea of more personal rejection.
Sep 042020
If you want to know what most people’s inner lives are like, imagine the Old Testament, but starring you instead of the Jews.
Aug 182020
Curing delusion has become, for psychiatry, a simple matter of demanding that the world see the subject as he sees himself.
Jul 032020
Once it was fashionable to be fat, to show that you got enough to eat; and then it became fashionable to be thin, to distinguish yourself from the ostentatiously fat. This is the complete history of taste.
Jun 262020
Imagine thinking that people, if they only understood you better, would like you more.
May 272020
No deed is so awful as to prevent a man from thinking well of himself even as he commits it.
Mar 172020
To recognize your betters you have to acknowledge that they exist.