No one calls anything important that disconfirms his prejudices.
May 152017
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
Feb 282017
Self-criticism, painful as it may be, at least affords the opportunity to think about oneself.
Feb 012017
A love of mankind is always unrequited.
Jan 132017
Major vices are too alien and fascinating to earn our unalloyed contempt; we reserve that for minor ones.
Dec 262016
Noble deeds, performed without regard for reputation or reward, would be more common if there was just some way to get the word out.
Dec 222016
To imagine oneself facing an unpleasant truth — few sensations are as pleasant.
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.