Any remotely promising new idea will promptly be seized on to explain everything.
Apr 152020
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
Apr 132020
There is small reason to believe, outside of a few specialized fields, that a proposition is correct because it can be persuasively argued for.
Apr 082020
You never get a good piece of music stuck in your head, just an idiotically catchy pop song or advertising jingle; and ideas work the same way.
Mar 182020
All issues appear to have two sides for the same reason a tetrahedron does; and our spatial is better than our logical perspective.
Mar 112020
It is unfortunate that I forget so few of my thoughts.
Feb 262020
Though modern society generally punishes stupidity, it allows certain specialized forms of it, often confused with intelligence, to flourish.
Jan 282020
Enlightenment philosophy is Christianity without the serpent.
Jan 232020
Utter dissociation of thought and action is normal; for its opposite we reserve special terms, like saint, or fanatic, or fool.
Jan 142020
Occam’s Razor accounts not for the world’s simplicity, but for our own.
Dec 272019
Too cool for deontology, too stupid for consequentialism.