Too cool for deontology, too stupid for consequentialism.
Dec 272019
Dec 262019
The idea that art should relate to the audience is exactly backwards.
Dec 252019
There are no noble lies, but useful myths abound.
Dec 242019
It is a terrible shock to learn how much less the world thinks of you than you think of yourself, and no one ever truly recovers.
Dec 232019
Intellectuals have to do a lot of hate-reading.
Dec 202019
To silence a disciple, steer him to a subject on which his master has not opined.
Dec 192019
I find, with age, more and more people of whom I approve in theory but not in practice.
Dec 182019
Reasoning to broad, correct conclusions is like beating the market: it happens, but not to you.
Dec 172019
We say that it can’t be true when we mean that it mustn’t.
Dec 162019
More education, touted by all sides as the solution for every conceivable social problem, has yet to fix a single one, though it has created a few.