Everything – Page 251 – A book of aphorisms
May 302014
 

If truth were ever spoken to it power would be grateful.

May 292014
 

Inequalities of wealth and power pale beside inequality of merit.

May 282014
 

Religion without doctrine and ritual is nothing, or as we now say, spirituality.

May 272014
 

Blessed are the toolmakers, for real work consists less in performing difficult tasks than in making them easy.

May 262014
 

The soldier perfects how at the expense of why.

May 232014
 

You may not get the size of audience you deserve, but you always get the kind.

May 222014
 

No situation is so desperate that a little hard work and ingenuity can’t make it worse.

May 212014
 

An electronic device that tracked your location at all times used to be a condition of parole.

May 202014
 

Belief is an equilibrium, and that is just the trouble.