It is pointless to do with more what can be done with fewer.
Category: Thought
William of Ockham
Plurality is never to be posited without necessity.
Nat Hentoff
Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers.
Nat Hentoff
Means and ends are central. If your means are corroded, your ends will be corroded. And if you’re fighting to preserve liberty and you use means that eviscerate our liberties, the end will be corroded, too.
Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it’s impossible to count them accurately.
Oscar Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Zeno of Citium
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
Zeno of Citium
All the good are friends of one another.
John Trenchard, Cato’s Letters
If our Money be gone, thank God, our Eyes are left; Sharpened by Experience and Adversities, we can see through Disguises, and will be no more amused with Moon-shine.