The psychological travails of Western man stem mostly from the fact that he can be idle and not starve.
Dec 132013
Dec 122013
Belief in karma is the coward’s revenge.
Dec 112013
The ellipsis is the shuffling derelict of punctuation.
Dec 102013
Many books are least likely to be read by the people who would profit most by reading them.
Dec 092013
Yesterday the great enemy of democracy was distinction of birth; today it is distinction of wealth; tomorrow it will be distinction.
Dec 062013
Integrity is the writer refusing to make allowances for the reader; philistinism is the reader refusing to make allowances for the writer.
Dec 052013
Failure is always an option. Often it is the best option.
Dec 042013
Uncivilized colonists enslave the natives; civilized colonists exterminate them.
Dec 032013
The principle of epistemic modesty does not imply that people in high places know what they’re doing; quite the contrary.
Dec 022013
To be perfectly sincere one must be very clever or very stupid.