Every policy has both seen and unseen consequences, and what is unseen dwarfs what is seen.
Jun 192023
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 152023
Seeing is no longer believing; believing remains seeing.
Jun 062023
No one will ever know what it is like to be stupid.
Jun 022023
The choice is better thoughts or our own.
May 312023
I would be more willing to speculate on the motives of others if I had a clearer understanding of my own.
May 242023
To act one must disregard some of the possible consequences of one’s actions: this we call morality.
May 162023
Intelligence does not improve one’s thoughts, but it does increase their variance.
May 042023
Strenuous objections to the parts show acquiescence in the whole.
Apr 122023
We let ideas rattle around in our heads, and call it thinking.
Apr 062023
Bad analogies make no end of mischief, none more than mind and body.