Thou art God.
The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.
Prof is right; more than three people can’t decide anything.
Never appeal to a man's better nature. He may not have one.
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceiva...
I am not sentimental about kids. Little monsters, most of them, who don’t civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then.
I always get the shakes before a drop.
His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
For millennia philosophers and saints have tried to reason out a logical scheme for the universe... until Hilda came along and demonstrated that the universe is not logical but whimsical, its structur...
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. From an anthropologist's view, 'justice' is a search for wor...
Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]
Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequ...
An honest politician is one that stays bought.
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
Stupid races don’t build spaceships!)
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cos...
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.
Women and cats do what they do; there is nothing a man can do about it