Humans are so ill-equipped to think about conspiracies that they infect and derange our thinking in the few areas in which we are usually competent.
Thinking
Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
—Whitehead
Relativism is less a philosophy than an excuse.
Language is viscous, it resists: one thinks in words as one swims in water.
We are exhorted to ask cui bono?, yet cui malo? is often the more penetrating question.
Why is not half so troublesome a question as So What.
To the problem of different opinions political science offers two solutions, idealism and realism. Idealism: different opinions should not exist. Realism: different opinions do not exist.
Haters gonna have a point now and then.
A dangerous idea must be, if not true, at least plausible.
It is because we always begin with the conclusion that we ever get anywhere.
It is possible to change your mind, when old, only if you have previously acquired the habit.