An accurate thinker is right: a fertile one is interesting when wrong.
May 052016
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 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.
Mar 142016
The great enemy of men is Man.
Mar 102016
Philosophers can go on about knowing nothing for quite some time.
Feb 262016
What is dangerous is not ignorance, but the size of the gap between what you know and what you think you know.
Feb 242016
Hegel’s a priori astronomy is laughed at, yet a priori theories of mind remain entirely respectable.
Feb 162016
I write mostly for intellectuals, and mostly against them.