You can talk a man out of an idea he is happy with only by making him unhappy with it.
Jun 222016
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
Jun 212016
To make, not the case that convinces me, but the one that I think will convince you, is not bad faith but good manners.
Jun 012016
One must think very well to improve on not thinking at all.
May 272016
It must be easier to fix the world than it is to fix a dishwasher; there are so many more people who know how.
May 102016
Episteme married Techne and they lived happily ever after.
May 052016
An accurate thinker is right: a fertile one is interesting when wrong.
Apr 262016
I often need to hear what I say to know what I think.
Apr 132016
If you find an argument difficult to answer, it might be true.
Mar 282016
Clarity tends to banality, and obscurity tends to nonsense.
Mar 182016
Western religious and secular thought have finally converged on the idea that to be good it is necessary only to believe that you are.