Everything – Page 7 – A book of aphorisms
Oct 192023
 

Pretension is a debt, a loan taken against future learning. Sometimes the debtor pays it off; more often he becomes a bankrupt.

Oct 182023
 

The worst thing about small errors is the way they retard one’s progress toward large ones.

Oct 172023
 

Every despotic power, especially a majority, tends to become absolute.

Oct 162023
 

The oppressor adds insult to injury when he imagines himself oppressed.

Oct 132023
 

It is now possible to be innocent of mathematics, science, history, logic, and languages, and unblushingly refer to oneself as educated.

Oct 122023
 

Men who knew something about everything were deposed by men who knew everything about something, who were succeeded, in their turn, by men who know nothing about anything.

Oct 112023
 

The Four Plots

Dragged back in
Stranger in town
Road trip
I want what he’s having