Everything – Page 259 – A book of aphorisms
Feb 122014
 

From mass literacy the last couple of centuries follow more or less ineluctably.

Feb 112014
 

By infecting others the writer cures himself.

Feb 102014
 

People who do not say what they mean usually do not know what they mean.

Feb 072014
 

Punishment deters best when regarded as expiation.

Feb 062014
 

It is so much easier not to be wrong than to be right.

Feb 052014
 

No government strong enough to provide liberty is weak enough to preserve it.

Feb 042014
 

In the most intractable arguments, one party regards as a question of degree what the other regards as one of kind.

Feb 032014
 

The critique is usually pertinent, the positive program disastrous.

Jan 312014
 

You can divorce your wife but not your generation.

Jan 302014
 

One ought to reorganize one’s opinions at least as often as one’s closets.