Western man worships bluesmen the same way the ancient Egyptians worshipped cats.
Jul 272022
Jul 262022
The late 19th century was nearer in thought to the Romans than to us.
Jul 252022
Everything you hear about polite company seems calculated to drive you into the arms of the impolite.
Jul 222022
Imagination, without a problem to work at, is dull. It does almost nothing but graft characteristics of one thing onto another; centaurs, gorgons, mermaids, and unicorns are its typical products.
Jul 212022
Grievances are often not merely nursed but cherished, and a great many people, deprived of theirs, would be nothing at all.
Jul 202022
Enforced unanimity about important matters provokes violent disagreements over trivia.
Jul 192022
The first rule of lying is never deviate from the facts.
Jul 182022
Science is like the best athlete in gym class — nobody really likes him, but everybody wants him on his team.
Jul 152022
People are divided less by what they believe than by how intensely they believe it.
Jul 142022
We are subject, when we change our mind, to exactly the same errors as when we make it up in the first place.