'Oh God,' he groaned. 'I'd almost forgotten! What a relief it was when I stopped worrying about being good!' |
A man's virtues, it seems to me, are his abilities, and his vices are his deficiencies. |
Another person's ego is the most exquisite of delicacies, king's caviar - those who taste it can never resist it. |
As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention the technological world --have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our |
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not. |
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you |
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you |
I submit that anyone who is trying to explain one thing in terms of something else has nothing important to say. |
Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth? |
Like all wage-slaves,he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with. |
Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts |
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders. |
One must start early to become a great man. |
People will either like you for your money or they'll resent you for having it.. So you're stuck with a small group who are as rich as you are, and that doesn't give you much choice. |
Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination. |