Philosophers find meaningful careers through denying meaning.
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Philosophy
Only the loner can study the crowd.
For the atheist, beneath the intelligible there is only the unintelligent, a blank stare behind beautiful eyes, muteness behind the music.
The pleasure of talking to oneself: who else besides me always and unfailingly desires to discuss exactly the same subjects I do?
Faces are like assumptions: we see with them, we do not see them.
If women cry more than men, as they are stereotyped, they are the deeper sex, plumbing life's magnificent sorrow while the sports-watching, business-traveling, engine-fixing men live practically, that is, practically don't live.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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