Showing posts with label Aphorisms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aphorisms. Show all posts

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Aphorism XV

Contra Voltaire, it is to the living that we owe truth; to the dead we owe only respect.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Aphorism XIV

I have never met an anti-dogmatist, but I have met people who are opposed to anyone other than themselves making ex cathedra statements.

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Aphorism XIII

Anyone who tells you the Gospel is about love is speaking the truth; but anyone who says the Gospel is about love and defines love simply as warm, fuzzy feelings is a fool or a liar and should be instructed, admonished or ignored as necessary.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Aphorism XII

Wisdom finds its end not in some proof, but in the Sanctus.

Friday, November 07, 2008

Aphorism XI

Marxist argumentation: When logic and reality are against you, accuse your opponent of a pathology.

EDIT:

Or, to put in the terms of the Underpants Gnomes...

Argument Plan:

Phase 1: Accuse your opponent of a pathology.

Phase 2: ???

Phase 3: Victory!

See how simply it is?

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Aphorism X

Being anti-Scylla does not make one pro-Charybdis.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Aphorism IX

Reality is heteronormative.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Aphorism VIII

"Equality" means that every member of society can have the aristocratic vices of Imperial Rome.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Aphorism VII

The modern world is only semi-Nietzschean; it has all of Nietzsche's vices but none of his virtues.

Aphorism VI

Electoral politics in the modern United States is the result of turning the fallacy of the false dilemma into a way of life.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Aphorism V

The modern hatred of hierarchies is really the hatred of not being at the top of one.

Aphorism IV

Agreeing to be a slave doesn't make you any less of one.

Aphorism III

When modern man says, "That is not realistic," what he truly means is, "That is not easy."

Aphorism II

Tell me what you would die for and I will tell you what you love.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Aphorism I

When attempting to understand an otherwise incomprehensible event in the modern world, hold to these two principles: Cherchez la femme et cherchez l'argent.