Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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The person who doesn’t read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.
~ Umberto Eco
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Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
~ H. L. Mencken
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I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening – the time they call, for some accountable reason, ‘between dog and wolf’.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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The past is the luxury of proprietors.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Philosophies can be judged, at most, on the grounds of the perspicacity with which they decide that something is worthy of becoming the starting point for a global explanatory hypothesis.
~ Umberto Eco
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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