It is because we regard conforming opinions as virtue that we treat deviant ones as vice.
Nov 142016
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 242016
A few have learned to suppress their dismay that the world does not regard them quite as they regard themselves, and this we call modesty.
Oct 212016
We need not approve of the audience to crave its approval.
Jun 102016
You see your own viewpoint about as well as you hear your own accent.
May 312016
The illogical are convinced that they are imaginative, and the unimaginative that they are logical.
Jan 282016
American exceptionalism: The belief that everywhere should be exactly like America, but not just yet.
Dec 072015
Intellectuals place a great premium on intelligence, to draw attention from the fact that they are, as a class, quite thick.
Nov 162015
The best time to mention your high IQ is while explaining how IQ measures nothing important.
Nov 092015
We say that we know a man when we catch a glimpse, in him, of ourselves.
Nov 052015
Few who profess to ignore what others think extend the policy to praise: they fast by gorging on dessert.