To imagine oneself facing an unpleasant truth — few sensations are as pleasant.
Dec 222016
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
Dec 022016
The most vexing problem in psychology is the happiness and success of our inferiors.
Nov 252016
That we would have been above the absurd beliefs and barbaric practices of other times — this absurd belief abets our barbaric practices.
Nov 142016
It is because we regard conforming opinions as virtue that we treat deviant ones as vice.
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.