People resent being told what to think, but they scarcely notice being told what to think about.
Mar 302017
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
Mar 082017
No shades of gray without black and white.
Feb 202017
You are an ideologue if your views can be inferred from your vocabulary.
Feb 092017
Your counterexample is my special circumstance in which the stipulated conditions do not obtain.
Jan 122017
An idea both novel and interesting is almost surely wrong.
Jan 102017
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt look like sound epistemic principles to me.
Jan 062017
You can talk a man into anything, as long as there’s nothing you have to talk him out of.
Nov 182016
Pedantry begins as a parasite on fastidiousness, and eventually destroys its host.
Nov 152016
What is most original is least influential, for we are influenced only by what we can assimilate.
Nov 012016
Ideas need not stand continuous duty, like sentries; you can abandon one without another fresh and ready to take its place.