Everything – Page 175 – A book of aphorisms
May 052017
 

Is it the imminent destruction of the world you mourn, or the accomplished destruction of how you thought about it?

May 042017
 

We must defend democracy from the half of the population too stupid to be entrusted with it.

May 032017
 

Engineers build things; then scientists explain how they work.

May 022017
 

To feel misunderstood implies that some effort has gone into understanding you.

May 012017
 

The two great moral lessons of our time: we must celebrate our differences; and we are all the same.

Apr 272017
 

It is the work of art to conceal art, and of criticism to reveal it again.

Apr 262017
 

Elite is a rather flattering term for what is in fact a clutch of overgrown teacher’s pets.

Apr 252017
 

Personnel became Human Resources, which will serve as an epigraph for the past century; and then HR, which will serve for the present one.

Apr 242017
 

The Masses, pl. n.   A gigantic, perfectly secret society to which no one has yet admitted belonging.