Pedantry begins as a parasite on fastidiousness, and eventually destroys its host.
Nov 182016
Nov 172016
Sometimes we encounter ideas that cannot be reconciled with what we already believe, and these we call untrue.
Nov 162016
What have you unlearned today?
Nov 152016
What is most original is least influential, for we are influenced only by what we can assimilate.
Nov 142016
It is because we regard conforming opinions as virtue that we treat deviant ones as vice.
Nov 112016
If you believe the reviewers when they call you a genius, you will believe them when they call you a fool.
Nov 102016
For most of history it was prohibited for the mass of men to express themselves: then, briefly, it was permitted: now it is required.
Nov 092016
What you don’t know you can’t leave out.
Nov 082016
The most exquisite pleasure of a vice is the periodic heartfelt resolution to give it up.
Nov 072016
The wish is occasionally the father of the thought, but more often the midwife.