Altruism and Cynicism
173 aphorisms · 15 comments
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tiny.ag/r6bo5aic · submitted 1998 by Mark van Essen
Black, white, brown, yellow or even red, we piss with our pants down, and go naked to bed.
tiny.ag/7do2rifh · submitted 1997
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Mark Twain, What is Man?, 1906, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/ne1vhxlr · submitted 1997
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.
tiny.ag/gymh6otw · submitted 1997
Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
tiny.ag/sdmeheo7 · submitted 1997
I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
tiny.ag/q6kxew3z · submitted 1997
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
tiny.ag/vinogpxg · submitted 1997
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
tiny.ag/apirm627 · submitted 1997
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
tiny.ag/hq8w7xao · submitted 1997
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
tiny.ag/bsgtnfh5 · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/dhapqbwl · submitted 1997
Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/purgb27l · submitted 1997
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
tiny.ag/kvgolwyi · submitted 1998
The danger today is not so much that machines will learn to think and feel but that men will cease to do so.
tiny.ag/dxokyfu8 · submitted 1997
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
tiny.ag/np9dvtka · submitted 1997
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
tiny.ag/0ihiksxu · submitted 1997
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
H. Allen Smith, Let the Crabgrass Grow, in Altruism and Cynicism
tiny.ag/fjkyccqy · submitted 1997
In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
tiny.ag/asecpbyl · submitted 1997
A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
tiny.ag/euochyxn · submitted 1997
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Daniel Schorr, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/vgoawlvx · submitted 1997
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
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