The two great metaphors for society in political philosophy have been machine and organism: thus the two for the individual have been cog and cell.
Nov 102014
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
Oct 152014
Better that X guilty men go free than one innocent man be convicted. Solve for X.
Sep 172014
You can’t be a polymath without the math.
Jun 162014
Every effort to know your own mind changes it, sometimes beyond recognition.
Jun 122014
Doubt of the obvious engenders belief in the impossible.
Jun 062014
Mental effort dwarfs all other costs.
May 052014
The facts never speak for themselves.
Apr 142014
Ingenuity is fatal in philosophers.
Apr 082014
To make a reputation as a deep thinker, settle on a single half-truth early, and spend the rest of your life flogging it.
Apr 072014
The last heresy is orthodoxy.