The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

Disillusionment is not truth.

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.