What is most original is least influential, for we are influenced only by what we can assimilate.
Nov 152016
What is most original is least influential, for we are influenced only by what we can assimilate.
It is because we regard conforming opinions as virtue that we treat deviant ones as vice.
If you believe the reviewers when they call you a genius, you will believe them when they call you a fool.
For most of history it was prohibited for the mass of men to express themselves: then, briefly, it was permitted: now it is required.
What you don’t know you can’t leave out.
The most exquisite pleasure of a vice is the periodic heartfelt resolution to give it up.
The wish is occasionally the father of the thought, but more often the midwife.
The one indispensable element in starting a business is gross overconfidence.
Money makes all things possible, such as not caring about money.
Don’t worry about the facts. You can always find the ones you need.