“Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised; and the rememberer and the remembered; and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree; no not anyone with himself; and the whole earth too is a point.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The shadow has become the substance.”
― The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
― The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
“Throw away thy books. No longer distract thyself.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“There's magic, positive magic, in such phrases as: "I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let's examine the facts.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
“Modern liberalism suffers unresolved contradictions. It exalts individualism and freedom and, on its radical wing, condemns social orders as oppressive. On the other hand, it expects government to provide materially for all, a feat manageable only by an expansion of authority and a swollen bureaucracy. In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.”
― Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
― Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
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