Meritocracy replaces aristocracy with bureaucracy.
Dec 052019
Dec 042019
If hope lay in the proles, there would be no hope, but it lies in the intellectuals, and there is no hope.
Dec 032019
Those who think they are the future can’t tell you half as much about it as those who know they are the past.
Dec 022019
Feelings of inferiority are usually benign and amply justified; it’s feelings of superiority that are the menace.
Nov 292019
Many modern ills trace to the fateful decision to teach stupid people how to read.
Nov 282019
It is more common to talk well than to listen well, and to write well than to read well.
Nov 272019
We have been taught to find ourselves, to lose ourselves, to love ourselves, respect ourselves, forgive ourselves: only our selves are lacking.
Nov 262019
When you destroy a large tribe you produce a lot of smaller ones.
Nov 252019
People will swallow just about any story. Only when it’s not a story do we refuse to swallow it.
Nov 222019
It is to what we now call manic phases that we owe a great part of the imperishable works of human civilization.