You never violate your principles: you only discover that they are not what you thought they were.
Sep 232016
Sep 222016
When a philosopher says that you have denied the metaphysical nature of something he means that you have explained it.
Sep 212016
Less likely that it is complicated than that you are simple.
Sep 202016
Parents, and governments, pursue order, not justice.
Sep 192016
Stupid people, inconveniently, are often right.
Sep 162016
Americans abhor idleness. This is their greatest virtue, and their greatest vice.
Sep 152016
The shrewdest strivers all profess a deep and abiding respect for intellect, provided it keeps its distance.
Sep 142016
The cultural norm always precedes the psychological theory that is eventually invoked to justify it.
Sep 132016
Many men prefer seduction to sex, and many women prefer sex to seduction.
Sep 122016
To study ethics, read fiction, not philosophy.