When a man hears voices, they are never in doubt.
Mar 042022
Erring
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
—Cunningham
Dec 172021
We complain to the gods that they don’t exist.
Dec 102021
One ought to be exercised about injustice for the bad, but not inordinately.
Oct 072021
We believe only what we can afford, and our stupid or vicious beliefs usually come cheap.
Oct 012021
We are sometimes deceived that muddy waters run deep, more often that clear waters run shallow.
Sep 082021
When there are two opposed opinions, each widely held, the truth generally lies on a large ellipse with those two points as the foci.
Aug 262021
One does not defeat nonsense by refuting it.
Aug 092021
Our ancestors attributed to the gods the vicissitudes of the weather, and we attribute to the President the vicissitudes of the stock market.
Jun 162021
In our zeal to justify our opinions we neglect to justify having them at all.
Jun 072021
“How can you say that such-and-such is against X, when X is right there in its name?” This argument owes its extraordinary popularity to its utility as a trial balloon: people who swallow it will swallow anything.