Western religious and secular thought have finally converged on the idea that to be good it is necessary only to believe that you are.
The fat man should never eat the last doughnut.
For diminishing returns read philosophy; for network effects read history.
If you publicize your errors vigorously, eventually someone will say they are remembered because you were right so often.
The great enemy of men is Man.
Occasionally the operation succeeds but the patient dies; far more often it fails but the patient survives.
Philosophers can go on about knowing nothing for quite some time.
The Gods of Liberty, Equality, Justice, and The People have demanded more human sacrifice than all other divinities combined.
Reading is like sauce-making: one does not remember the books so much as become infused with them.
In bygone days, when an author did not hear continuously from his readers, he was less inclined to patronize them.