All samples are convenient, and thus no samples are random.
May 052023
Erring
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
—Cunningham
Apr 112023
Talk of rights is usually cant; talk of human rights always is.
Mar 302023
Genuine truth-seekers make unfashionable errors.
Mar 202023
The wish that things were otherwise, if ardent enough, becomes, by degrees, the belief that they are.
Feb 272023
No one is consigned to the psychiatrists for participating in a mass delusion, however absurd.
Feb 152023
Nonsense demands fluency, of which the lack confers a certain immunity.
Dec 262022
People can believe in anything but accidents.
Nov 252022
A necessary evil is a contradiction in terms.
Jul 142022
We are subject, when we change our mind, to exactly the same errors as when we make it up in the first place.
Jul 062022
Public acknowledgement of error is almost entirely for show. It has no point unless you reexamine the habits of thought that produced the error, which is best done in private.