Everything – Page 124 – A book of aphorisms
Apr 182019
 

Those who can, smoke; those who cannot, philosophize.

Apr 172019
 

If it wasn’t for cognitive biases, I’d have no cognition at all.

Apr 162019
 

Not so very long ago, no adult in history had ever spoken of himself as the parent of an animal.

Apr 152019
 

When addressed “with all due respect”, duck.

Apr 122019
 

Everyone should have one friend whose thought is a digest of fashionable absurdities. It saves no end of time.

Apr 112019
 

When a bad thing happens in the world, it is vanishingly unlikely to be any of your business.

Apr 102019
 

Ours is the Great Age of Hoaxes, its small compensation for being the Great Age of Fakes.

Apr 082019
 

The number of sources read by the author varies inversely with the length of the bibliography.