There are people who understand the power of speech, and people who oppose restrictions on speech, but rarely the same people.
Oct 212020
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 302020
Sanity is less a particular outlook than a practiced aversion to the multifarious forms of crazy.
Sep 282020
Thought-criminals, like regular ones, would escape punishment more often if they could manage not to boast of their exploits.
Sep 082020
Humans perceive nothing as accidental, and this is no accident.
Aug 102020
We read, and imagine we can write; and write, and imagine we can think.
Aug 032020
Schopenhauer remarked that every country derides the customs and habits of other countries, and every country is correct: this is a principle with wide application.
Jul 222020
Those who cannot judge what to believe must resort to whom.
Jul 142020
Thinking, like plumbing, is something we rarely do for ourselves; but no one imagines that he does his own plumbing.
Jul 072020
If your thoughts seem banal to you, it may be because you have lived with them for a long time and grown used to them, or it may be because they are.
Jul 012020
Monotheism dies that monism may live.