Inequality, like many supposed problems, is not a problem at all: it is a condition.
Nov 302021
Nov 292021
Lower pleasures are never quite as sharp the second time: they depend on surprise.
Nov 192021
If you don’t have anything nice to say, use an agreeable tone of voice.
Nov 182021
What the machine can do, we need not; and if we need not, soon we cannot.
Nov 172021
The purveyor of a cure does not, unless he is a madman, spread the ill; but he can scarcely help spreading belief in it.
Nov 162021
That warm, fuzzy feeling when you know you have done right? Nothing is to be trusted less.
Nov 152021
For heresy, like murder, there is no statute of limitations — not even centuries.
Nov 122021
You can’t convince people that ugliness is beautiful. You can, however, convince them that it is bold, inspiring, visionary, unique, searching, thought-provoking, evocative, and unconventional.
Nov 112021
School inculcates the bad habit of finishing books, as if they were assignments.
Nov 102021
Never use five words where none will do.