A man’s belief system is a miracle of construction, apparently rickety and jerry-built, yet sturdy enough to withstand the introduction of a new fact or idea without being altered or disturbed.
May 062020
May 052020
Hate is the most unjustly maligned emotion, and love the most unjustly celebrated.
May 042020
First you remain silent in the face of absurdities, then you utter them, and finally you believe them,
May 012020
Voting, like tattoos, diverts the urge toward self-expression from more noisome forms like speech.
Apr 302020
Hating the people you disagree with is harmless; it’s liking the ones you agree with that’s dangerous.
Apr 292020
There are two kinds of governments: those, like absolute monarchies, that tell their subjects frankly who rules them; and those, like democracies, that lie about it.
Apr 282020
No matter how bad your argument is, you can be sure it’s not original.
Apr 272020
Hidden depths are only unrecorded thoughts, which have ceased to exist.
Apr 242020
Many social institutions, like religion, work best when no one knows quite how.
Apr 232020
We police others’ moods even more strictly than we police their thoughts.