Everything – Page 217 – A book of aphorisms
Sep 182015
 

Our thirst for narrative makes saints of reformed sinners, and reformed sinners of saints.

Sep 172015
 

“Because I can” is a fundamental and oft-overlooked principle of human behavior.

Sep 152015
 

To understand the past, treat it like the present; to understand the present, treat it like the past.

Sep 142015
 

Ideas rule the world — the ideas of the people who rule the world.

Sep 112015
 

No one thinks to correct hypocrisy by aligning his beliefs with his actions.

Sep 102015
 

Every good performance artist is known as something else.

Sep 092015
 

The force of an analogy lies in the similarity; the point lies in the difference.

Sep 082015
 

Hallmark and Instagram are just two of the many fortunes to be made by permitting humans to communicate without the inconvenient obligation of articulate speech.

Sep 072015
 

Wrath, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, and Sanctimony.