Why study what the world thinks? I believe this practice will actually make us more gracious and merciful. Engaged in interactions with worldlings, we are likely to see each person and each situation...
When I say most people I mean, of course, me after my first cocktail.
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncras...
It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.
When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical.
No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild.
The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.
Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.
What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever.
A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.
That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.