Apt Aphorisms

Apt Aphorisms should be sampled like a collection of amuse-bouches: it doesn’t include the main course. A collection of more than 500 original aphorisms – some serious, some humorous, some deliberately mischievous – arranged in nine themed sections. Designed to be dipped into rather than read straight through. Focussed on economics and economists, universities and teaching, language and communication, health and healthcare policy, and music in religion. “You’ll say what you mean only if you mean what you say.”“Economic efficiency is not intrinsically good. Whether it is good depends on what you’re being efficient at.”“If only Christianity (and all other religions) were to shed its Bronze Age vision of humans and the universe, and likewise its addiction to magical mysteries, the masculine dominance of its institutions, their hierarchical character, its terror of sex, and its certainty about everything - that might herald a truly Christian revelation.”“Good hymn tunes wear well. More is not required.”“Secrecy sanctifies sin.”“Publish and relish.”“A university ought to be an ideas factory; no less, perhaps more.”“To be certain about anything is certainly wrong.”“It’s better to do the right thing for a wrong reason than the wrong thing for a right reason.”