More Arthur Truisms

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"Truly exceptional people prefer to be on their own because ordinary people are annoying."
——Schopenhauer

Truismish

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"Behaving with kindness towards others causes them to be arrogant: therefore other people must be treated with some disregard."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't totally agree, but I think in some cases this just might be true.

truthiness

"In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath."

--Kahlil Gibran, 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives,' Thoughts and Meditations, 1960
Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 - 1931)