What is most original is least influential, for we are influenced only by what we can assimilate.
Nov 152016
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
Nov 012016
Ideas need not stand continuous duty, like sentries; you can abandon one without another fresh and ready to take its place.
Oct 042016
If only thought were conserved like matter, if lost thoughts were transmuted instead of vanishing forever.
Sep 222016
When a philosopher says that you have denied the metaphysical nature of something he means that you have explained it.
Sep 212016
Less likely that it is complicated than that you are simple.
Aug 292016
Knowledge is to have a hammer; wisdom is to recognize what’s not a nail.
Aug 222016
Most buts should be ands.
Aug 052016
Inspiration only dramatizes thought for those who cannot think. Physical laws do not come from falling apples, or poems from opium dreams.
Aug 042016
What makes a fool? The gap between what he knows and what he thinks he knows — in short, opinions.
Jul 292016
Any idiot can have a good idea; it takes a genius to recognize one.