Status Updates From Maxims and Reflections

“On the appearance of anything new the mass of people ask: What is the use of it? And they are not wrong. For it is only through the use of anything that they can perceive its value.

The truly wise ask what the thing is in itself and in relation to other things…”

“Lamps make oil-spots, and candles want snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.”

“This it is that has been called, in a good and in a bad sense, ideology; and this is why the ideologist is so repugnant to the hard-working, practical man of every day.”