Everything – Page 107 – A book of aphorisms
Dec 102019
 

How he kills himself says a lot about a man.

Dec 092019
 

The discovery that only bad people do bad things has tidied the administration of justice, making it a simple matter of determining who the bad people are.

Dec 062019
 

No one inveighs so strictly against ad hominem as degenerate liars.

Dec 052019
 

Meritocracy replaces aristocracy with bureaucracy.

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 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.