Progress may feel more like loss than gain.
The New Right: kiss the bankers and spank the babies.
By the time I have clarified a thought, I no longer want to think it.
People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.
The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.