Everything – Page 197 – A book of aphorisms
Jun 292016
 

In philosophy correspondence and coherence vary inversely.

Jun 272016
 

The most pleasing aesthetic effect is the happy accident.

Jun 242016
 

List, and the world lists with you; abstract, and you abstract alone.

Jun 232016
 

Your most reliable and attentive readers are the people who hate you.

Jun 222016
 

You can talk a man out of an idea he is happy with only by making him unhappy with it.

Jun 212016
 

To make, not the case that convinces me, but the one that I think will convince you, is not bad faith but good manners.

Jun 202016
 

The truth shall set you on anyone who will listen.

Jun 172016
 

It is not easy for a woman to win an author’s heart; she has to read his books.

Jun 162016
 

At least you can deal with the devil; God just pushes everyone around.