Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

Consistency is a virtue for trains.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.