Everything – Page 236 – A book of aphorisms
Dec 312014
 

You change the code to make it possible to change the code.

Dec 302014
 

In psychiatry the diagnosis becomes the disease.

Dec 292014
 

For purposes of conversation the world can be divided into two classes: too young to talk, and too old to listen.

Dec 262014
 

To write is to attempt to assemble a serviceable cottage from the ruins of the castle of thought.

Dec 252014
 

The conservative rarely vouches for the health of the patient; he merely prefers the disease to the cure.

Dec 242014
 

People will cheerfully confess ignorance of a topic and reject indignantly the suggestion that it might debar them from an opinion.

Dec 232014
 

The dream of escaping oneself can be realized, in part, by escaping other people’s ideas of oneself.

Dec 192014
 

If you wish to change a man’s beliefs, you have to give him something to replace them.

Dec 182014
 

There’s not much point in age without wisdom, or youth without folly.