“To thine own self be true” is not the advice of Shakespeare, or even Hamlet, but that old windbag Polonius.
Dec 082021
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Dec 062021
Reliable Results in Psychology: A Complete List
1. The single best predictor of favorable outcomes in life is IQ.
2. Stereotypes are true.
Nov 302021
Inequality, like many supposed problems, is not a problem at all: it is a condition.
Oct 192021
The characteristics of the flock cannot be inferred from the bird, or those of the hive from the bee: and so it is with men in a country, in a city, in a crowd.
Oct 082021
It is widely conceded that rich is better than poor, thin than fat, clever than dim, beautiful than ugly; yet the plausible inference that rich, thin, clever, beautiful people are better than poor, fat, dim, and ugly ones remains controversial.
Sep 302021
You want a better world. Does anybody want a worse one?
Sep 242021
The coward burdens himself with obligations to have unassailable reasons not to act courageously.
Sep 062021
Evil is the officer corps in the army of stupid.
Sep 022021
Good, like happiness, is best achieved by indirection.
Sep 012021
As robots become more like humans, so humans become more like robots.