Everything – Page 94 – A book of aphorisms
Jun 052020
 

The businessman wants peace, which is good for his business; and the intellectual wants war, which is good for his.

Jun 042020
 

When intelligence is no longer required for survival, it is instead expended on ever more baroque ways of being wrong.

Jun 022020
 

The difficulty with which success imagines failure makes for hard-heartedness, and the ease with which failure imagines success makes for envy.

May 292020
 

The first rule of Fight or Flight Club is that there is no time to talk about Fight or Flight Club.

May 282020
 

Few actions scale more effectively than help. You will likely do a little harm when you try to help one person, and almost surely do a lot when you try to help a great many.

May 272020
 

No deed is so awful as to prevent a man from thinking well of himself even as he commits it.