“Be honest”: An injunction to lie.
Aug 062019
Aug 052019
Fastidiousness can defeat barbarism but not savagery.
Aug 022019
A little truth, hard-won, can last a man for life. It is lies and nonsense for which a tolerance soon becomes a taste, a taste an appetite, and an appetite at last an insatiable craving.
Aug 012019
All criticism is destructive, differing only in tact and degree.
Jul 312019
I know many people with a positive mania for facing uncomfortable truths; it seems not to discomfort them in the least.
Jul 302019
Hell has no comedy, just an endless discussion of what isn’t funny.
Jul 292019
Dressing for success is a cargo cult.
Jul 262019
Our politics, driven more by hatred of the other side than love of our own, possibly betoken a decline in civility but certainly an advance in sense.
Jul 252019
Many of the disorders of the psychology textbooks are quite useful in moderation, and not a few are outright virtues.
Jul 242019
To learn the status of an identity, count how many people fake it.