Everything – Page 128 – A book of aphorisms
Feb 222019
 

The more you believe in the moral worth of your cause, the more willing you are to commit dubious deeds in its behalf; and perfect righteousness implies complete fluidity.

Feb 212019
 

The market may not be smarter than everyone — just everyone I know.

Feb 202019
 

Blessed are the literal, exasperating yet indispensable.

Feb 182019
 

We can be sure, when we are told that all interpretation is biased, that an egregiously biased interpretation will shortly follow.

Feb 152019
 

Today’s atrocities are committed for Equality and Justice; tomorrow’s will be committed for Love.

Feb 142019
 

A sudden influx into a profession or discipline signals either its robust health or its terminal illness.

Feb 132019
 

Sometimes the contagion is the thing, sometimes its expression: mirth and yawning are contagious, laughter and boredom are not.

Feb 122019
 

He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches; and he who does, usually cannot teach.

Feb 112019
 

Attacks on good are bilge: praise for trash is poison.