Utter dissociation of thought and action is normal; for its opposite we reserve special terms, like saint, or fanatic, or fool.
Jan 232020
Jan 222020
The critic’s indispensable service is not to praise greatness, which makes its own way in the world, but to refrain from praising mediocrity, which requires his assistance.
Jan 212020
The neuroses of the village can now be disseminated with the speed and efficiency of an advanced civilization.
Jan 202020
All authors dream of a posthumous reputation, none of posthumous sales.
Jan 172020
It is natural, if you believe that speech is violence, to believe that violence is speech.
Jan 162020
Anti-Semitism is marvelously economical; you can hate communism, globalism, the academy, television, international finance, journalism, and Hollywood, all at the same time.
Jan 152020
Only moderns, criminals, and small children regard a desire for something as a sign that they ought to have it.
Jan 142020
Occam’s Razor accounts not for the world’s simplicity, but for our own.
Jan 132020
The best defense against insanity is hypocrisy.
Jan 102020
Civilization depends on exclusion — what and whom to get rid of, what and whom not to let in in the first place.