Today, a word means what they say it means when they get around to saying that it means something.
Gunther Pinks, A Paranoid’s Pitiful Propositions.
Lie: truth that reclines.
W. Karl Bavinger, The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.
As science approaches a higher degree of resolution, the scientists begin to approach mediocrity. We may call this the Honus principle.
Spencer James Honus, Counting Our Spoons.
Some have plans for the future, but I have plans for the past:
1. That Europeans had never discovered the New World
2. That Europeans had never developed science and industrialism
3. That I (therefore) had never been born
Mills Verbruggen, The Isle of Dogs.
Vale of Tears: what our distractions distract us from.
Paul Uccello, Noli Me Tangere.
Concerning Rousseau, this much is clear: He was one of those people who seem to have no idea how ridiculous they are.
Maximilian Otto, Leonid Brezhnev: A Life.
Barbarism: that which precedes civilization and follows civilization.
W. Karl Bavinger, The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.
This isn’t the hill that I would have chosen for western civilization to die upon….
Hildegard Spengler, Asymptotic Processes in History.
We cannot know that we have arrived at something fundamental about the world—only that we have arrived at something.
Dennis W. Sylvester, Confessions of a Moon Man.
603. It’s not so much that people are brainwashed, it’s that they want to be brainwashed. They desire it.
Trevor Martens, A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.
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