When a philosopher says that you have denied the metaphysical nature of something he means that you have explained it.
Sep 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
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.
Jun 242016
List, and the world lists with you; abstract, and you abstract alone.
Jun 222016
You can talk a man out of an idea he is happy with only by making him unhappy with it.
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.