Being human beings Pacifists are just as obsessed With wielding power As everybody else And just as pathological as those

Because a man is only as good as h… you’ll know he means what he says when you see him do it But on social media a man is only his words

Desire is a tautology rendering each of us a failed ouroboros as dogs chasing our own tails

A smart phone is 1/7 billionth of a doomsday machine

Nietzsche, who famously never marr… described marriage as a long conve… Had he wed he would have realized it’s actual… a series of brief interrogations

Having heard that God is everywhe… and failing to see Him anywhere the unbeliever deduces that God is neither here nor there when, in fact, God is in the air

If I said– The worst thing you can say about… is that he always plays it safe– then he sounds like a perfectly ni… But when I say–

It is often wondered whether the v… People of the Book are reading fiction or non-fiction but since they are each reading an… of a relationship that is phenomen…

I was always being reassured that I was in the circle of trust but kept in the dark as to my place in it

A materialist looks around at ever… It’s all an accident His friend, the believer, adds his… It was an accident waiting to happ… The materialist and the believer a…

After that instead of talking about the weath… or staring at their phones people stared at anyone who talked

Writing history is hard especially when it’s about the past

Thinking of happiness as the meaning of life is like thinking of sugar as the meaning of food

In communist Russia no one wanted to be seen to be the first person to stop clapping for Stalin In America today

Unlike the Americans and the Engl… who are divided by a common langua… the Americans and the Parisians are divided by a common symptom: disappointment