25 Quotes by Paul Eldridge

We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.

Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

To judge a man’s character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life’s vast flock of wild irrationalities.