https://vegasharmon.com/tags/one-liners/ Recent content in One-Liners on Vegas Harmon Hugo en Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/build-the-future-don-t-subsidize-it/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/build-the-future-don-t-subsidize-it/ If we believe in a human future, we must build it, not with kind words or tax credits, but with a serious program of technological development. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/innovate-with-eyes-open-or-become-your-tools-slave/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/innovate-with-eyes-open-or-become-your-tools-slave/ If we do not enter upon innovation with our eyes wide open to how our tools and machines will reshape us, we will become their slaves, not their masters. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/lose-the-economy-lose-the-culture/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/lose-the-economy-lose-the-culture/ Conservatives “lost the culture” not because they lost the battle of ideas, but because they lost the economy. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/technology-as-the-new-engine-of-social-transformation/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/technology-as-the-new-engine-of-social-transformation/ Marx showed how a material transformation of the economic order could have enormous social and cultural effects. Forging the human order anew means building technologies that make it easier to live well. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/the-good-approached-only-by-fleeing-the-evil/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/the-good-approached-only-by-fleeing-the-evil/ The good is that at which we aim, to be sure, and yet the good that we seek can only ever be asymptotically approached by avoiding the evil, which is always nearer and clearer. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/the-devil-owns-the-world-anyway-dot-dot-dot/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/the-devil-owns-the-world-anyway-dot-dot-dot/ The devil owns the world anyway. Our job is to make it through the best we can. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/want-of-wonder/ Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/want-of-wonder/ The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/a-changing-heaven-keeps-earth-the-same/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/a-changing-heaven-keeps-earth-the-same/ As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will remain exactly the same. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/a-grumbler-or-only-a-grumble/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/a-grumbler-or-only-a-grumble/ The question is whether she is a grumbler, or only a grumble. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/a-stronger-angel-a-fiercer-devil/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/a-stronger-angel-a-fiercer-devil/ It is a stronger angel, and therefore, when it falls, a fiercer devil. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/all-dry-all-withered-all-spent/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/all-dry-all-withered-all-spent/ It was all dry: all withered: all spent. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/an-eye-drawing/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/an-eye-drawing/ That is an eye drawing, Anna. Hands alone do not draw this way. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/artifacts-are-defined-by-purpose/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/artifacts-are-defined-by-purpose/ What defines a human artifact is its goal or purpose. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/beasts-from-a-private-mythology/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/beasts-from-a-private-mythology/ …beasts from a private mythology. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/encouragement-speaks-fruitfully/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/encouragement-speaks-fruitfully/ Encouragement is speaking fruitfully into the life of another. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/happiness-courts-the-light/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/happiness-courts-the-light/ Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/humility-is-thinking-of-yourself-less/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/humility-is-thinking-of-yourself-less/ Humility is thinking of yourself less, not thinking less of yourself. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/inability-does-not-erase-obligation/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/inability-does-not-erase-obligation/ Our complete inability to do what is right does not erase our obligation to do what is right. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/into-this-grey-lake-plopped-the-thought/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/into-this-grey-lake-plopped-the-thought/ Into this grey lake plopped the thought, I know that man, don’t I? https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/life-as-a-ceaseless-contest/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/life-as-a-ceaseless-contest/ Life he saw as a ceaseless and courageous contest. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/love-as-the-craving-to-be-loved/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/love-as-the-craving-to-be-loved/ But what we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/measured-for-the-sake-of-heaven/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/measured-for-the-sake-of-heaven/ A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/multipolar-traps-as-technology-approaches-infinity/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/multipolar-traps-as-technology-approaches-infinity/ The limit of multipolar traps as technology approaches infinity is “very bad”. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/my-body-was-like-a-harp/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/my-body-was-like-a-harp/ But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/no-golden-rules/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/no-golden-rules/ The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/no-virtue-or-vice-in-a-transitive-verb/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/no-virtue-or-vice-in-a-transitive-verb/ There is no virtue or vice in a transitive verb. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/nothing-more-permanent-than-a-temporary-fix/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/nothing-more-permanent-than-a-temporary-fix/ There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary fix. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/prefer-not-to-be-a-little-reasonable/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/prefer-not-to-be-a-little-reasonable/ “At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,” was his mildly cadaverous reply. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/reality-is-harsh-to-the-feet-of-shadows/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/reality-is-harsh-to-the-feet-of-shadows/ Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come? https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/some-rise-by-sin/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/some-rise-by-sin/ Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/streets-shuttled-past/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/streets-shuttled-past/ They were in town now. Streets, houses, buildings shuttled past. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/tasting-the-golden-sun/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/tasting-the-golden-sun/ I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/time-weighs-most-on-those-who-have-it-least/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/time-weighs-most-on-those-who-have-it-least/ Strange thing, time. It weighs most on those who have it least. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/when-in-rome-leave/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/when-in-rome-leave/ When in Rome, leave. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/who-were-they-all/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/who-were-they-all/ The room was very full and who were they all? https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/your-heart-on-trial/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/your-heart-on-trial/ What if, instead of God’s Word being on trial, your heart was on trial?