To write is to attempt to assemble a serviceable cottage from the ruins of the castle of thought.
Dec 262014
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 222014
To be paid for opinions corrupts; and to be paid for particular opinions corrupts absolutely.
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.
Dec 172014
All intellectuals must begin as pseudo-intellectuals.
Dec 162014
First school spoils us for learning, and then jobs spoil us for work.
Dec 152014
If you hear hoofbeats, and see stripes, think zebras, not horses.