What is dangerous is not ignorance, but the size of the gap between what you know and what you think you know.
Feb 262016
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
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.
Feb 152016
It is the rare philosopher who notices how well most of the world gets on without philosophy.
Feb 022016
That knowledge is power, as if awareness conferred immunity, is among the oddest of the modern superstitions.
Jan 182016
Ideology, n. A theory that explains everything except its genesis.
Dec 212015
What is immoral should be illegal, and what is legal is not immoral — the bookends on the shelf of vulgar errors in political philosophy.
Dec 142015
The nodes do not intend the network.
Dec 112015
We argue in bad faith because we have forgotten what convinced us or are embarrassed by it.
Dec 022015
There is an absence of evidence that absence of evidence is evidence of absence.