If your thoughts seem banal to you, it may be because you have lived with them for a long time and grown used to them, or it may be because they are.
Jul 072020
Jul 062020
Democracy encourages would-be rulers to act like the people in an abject effort to gain the power to act for them.
Jul 032020
Once it was fashionable to be fat, to show that you got enough to eat; and then it became fashionable to be thin, to distinguish yourself from the ostentatiously fat. This is the complete history of taste.
Jul 022020
All hobbyists, but especially political aficionados, secretly regard lack of enthusiasm for their avocation as a moral failing.
Jul 012020
Monotheism dies that monism may live.
Jun 302020
Overrated: State violence
Underrated: Personal violence
Jun 292020
It is a man’s duty, now all but abandoned, to quash a public nuisance without official assistance.
Jun 262020
Imagine thinking that people, if they only understood you better, would like you more.
Jun 252020
To live with lies is, eventually, to live by them.
Jun 242020
The worst religions lack gods.