Attacks on greatness rain uselessly on civilization’s outer walls; praise for mediocrity bores from within.
Jul 252014
Attacks on greatness rain uselessly on civilization’s outer walls; praise for mediocrity bores from within.
We are just deep enough to wish for depths.
We say we feel old when circumstances have momentarily forced us to stop pretending that we are young.
When we can no longer tell ourselves that we are good, we tell ourselves that we are exceptional.
Leader: A megalomaniac whose luck has not yet run out.
When you don’t need a doctor, you really don’t need one.
To regard oneself as the exception is the rule.
One is human insofar as one is difficult to model.
Life may be sacred, but try telling Life that.
Monotheism is the most conspicuous failure of the principle of parsimony.