Everything – Page 142 – A book of aphorisms
Aug 102018
 

Ideologies overtly hostile to civilization are among its less fortunate byproducts.

Aug 092018
 

There are people who say a lot of true things, and people who say a lot of insightful things, but not the same people.

Aug 082018
 

Enthusiastic agreement is an infallible sign that you have not been understood.

Aug 072018
 

Humans are so ill-equipped to think about conspiracies that they infect and derange our thinking in the few areas in which we are usually competent.

Aug 062018
 

If you simply must go to the demonstration, get a sitter.

Aug 032018
 

Why does Hollywood hate capitalism? You would too, if you thought it looked like Hollywood.

Aug 022018
 

The true problem of evil is not arid and theological, but urgent and practical: malice, or stupidity?

Aug 012018
 

Relativism is less a philosophy than an excuse.

Jul 312018
 

Announcing that you will not be silenced should be legal grounds for doing so.

Jul 302018
 

So the last shall be told that they are first, and the first that they are last: for many be hectored, but few persuaded.