Every fictional utopia has one feature in common with every modern state: compulsory public education.
Feb 192016
Feb 182016
The silent partner in every business is Our Policy.
Feb 172016
Vehemence is the infallible sign of opinion.
Feb 162016
I write mostly for intellectuals, and mostly against them.
Feb 152016
It is the rare philosopher who notices how well most of the world gets on without philosophy.
Feb 122016
The very worst people are never much interested in money.
Feb 112016
The admission that irreparably damages the argument is introduced, by convention, with “of course”.
Feb 102016
That truth is stranger than fiction ought to embarrass novelists considerably.
Feb 092016
Great general causes, in history, are the tinder: chance is the match.
Feb 082016
Arguable, adj. What one is unwilling to argue about.