Everything – Page 244 – A book of aphorisms
Sep 052014
 

It is a grave misfortune to be stupid, yet we all laugh at the stupidity of others without a twinge of guilt.

Sep 042014
 

You can ignore the opinions of others if you know your own worth, and a persistent delusion works equally well.

Sep 022014
 

No one will listen to you talk about the uselessness of a prestigious education unless you have one.

Sep 012014
 

Every genocide is an accidental eugenics program.

Aug 292014
 

Courage! You have less to lose than you think.

Aug 282014
 

The archetype of the modern intellectual is not the dry specialist, as the nineteenth century foresaw, but the interdisciplinary huckster.

Aug 272014
 

When you have eliminated all other possible explanations, the one that remains, however unlikely, must be that you missed something.

Aug 262014
 

A man can adapt to nearly anything, but only two or three times.

Aug 252014
 

The heretic is not punished for error: he is punished for heresy.