Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.
Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.