Placebo is most of medicine, and nocebo is most of philosophy.
Sep 062017
Erring
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
—Cunningham
Aug 022017
Whatever I’ve believed with passionate intensity has been wrong.
Jul 282017
Not every aversion is a fear, and not every fear is a phobia.
Jul 202017
The likelihood that a new scientific finding is true varies inversely with your desire to talk about it at parties.
Jul 062017
The end of civilization will likely not be preceded by general alarm over civilization’s impending end.
Jun 302017
A belief, we are told, is a thought you keep thinking; in fact you stopped thinking it some time ago, if it was ever a thought at all.
Jun 212017
Vision, n. What no one but yourself can see.
Jun 202017
The less our beliefs have to do with our actions, the more we cherish them.
Jun 122017
We fret too much over the contradictions among our beliefs, in the unlikely event that we notice them at all.
May 312017
It is one short step from explaining everything to defending anything.