We have become too cool for deontology, yet remain too stupid for consequentialism.

It is a terrible shock to learn how much less the world thinks of you than you think of yourself, and no one ever truly recovers.

Being an intellectual demands a lot of hate-reading.

I have to do a better job of imparting the truth without making it quite so obvious how benighted you are.

For every hundred ringing declarations in favor of freedom of speech or the press there are none in favor of freedom of association.

No one inveighs so strictly against ad hominem as degenerate liars.

More education, touted by all sides as the solution for every conceivable social problem, has yet to fix a single one, though it has created a few.

To silence a disciple, steer him to a subject on which his master has not opined.

We say that it can't be true when we mean that it mustn't.

alt-right : antifa :: mod : rocker

I find, with age, more and more people of whom I approve in theory but not in practice.

The discovery that only bad people do bad things has greatly simplified the administration of justice, making it a simple matter of determining who the bad people are.

Like Russians for Stalin, many Americans are nostalgic for a time when we all thought the same, or at least we all thought we did.

There are people who ask strangers and bare acquaintances impertinent questions as if they were entitled to an answer. Sometimes they turn professional, and become journalists.