Everything – Page 43 – A book of aphorisms
Jun 032022
 

Propaganda demands endless repetition, not just of the same ideas, but in the same words.

Jun 022022
 

Convictions are mental furniture: they provide comfortable seating and rarely move.

Jun 012022
 

Talent, to a man who has it, is like water to a fish. It surrounds him, and he sees only his effort to employ it.

May 312022
 

Art experts concern themselves with provenance because they have no other way to spot a fake.

May 302022
 

The evil, or good, that men do on a colossal scale lives after them; the rest is interred with their bones.

May 272022
 

The fault is not in our phones, but in ourselves.

May 262022
 

To wish for what another has can be innocent, even salutary; what eats away the soul is the wish that he not have it.

May 232022
 

To improve discourse on social media, I am authoritatively informed, the enlightened must be kinder, more patient, and less patronizing with the unwashed.