It is not always easy to spot a rotter, but “middle-class” as an insult is an infallible sign.
Apr 272023
Apr 262023
One often sees accuracy without truth, and sometimes truth without accuracy.
Apr 252023
What do we know of signaling that La Rochefoucauld did not?
Apr 242023
The man makes the deed, and the deed makes the man.
Apr 212023
The great task of industrial civilization was to create leisure, and the great task of post-industrial civilization is to occupy it.
Apr 202023
Every great lie depends on narrative, the great meta-lie.
Apr 192023
Proper service demands the extinction of personality, the entire subjugation of oneself to another’s needs and desires. In America, where this runs counter to the national religion, it cannot be had at any price.
Apr 182023
The man who mocks what we hold dear we call a cynic, though he may hold dear what we mock.
Apr 172023
We often become stupid by fear of looking so.
Apr 142023
Art, like science, may be regarded by the practitioner as a collective body of work to which he hopes to make a small contribution.