A just God would be beside the point.
Jun 202023
A just God would be beside the point.
Every policy has both seen and unseen consequences, and what is unseen dwarfs what is seen.
Every liberty can be noxiously exercised.
Seeing is no longer believing; believing remains seeing.
I fought the Zeitgeist and the Zeitgeist won.
Nearly everything in history nearly didn’t happen.
What we laugh at in a comedy we rarely applaud, and what we applaud we rarely laugh at.
We err by treating vice as reprehensible, when it is usually only ridiculous.
The history of Western art would be entirely different if, 500 years ago, we had known that the Greeks painted their sculpture.
To have opinions is a private vice; to air them is a public nuisance.