It is possible to oppose, in private, absurdities to which one is obliged to show fealty in public, but easier just to start believing them.
Jun 282023
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
Jun 262023
Endlessly we subdivide, periodize, punctuate — hours and minutes and seconds, phylum and family, genus and species, molecule and atom, hadron and quark, ancient and medieval and modern. Continuity surrounds us; yet we cannot abide it, can scarcely believe in it.
Jun 192023
Every policy has both seen and unseen consequences, and what is unseen dwarfs what is seen.
Jun 152023
Seeing is no longer believing; believing remains seeing.
Jun 062023
No one will ever know what it is like to be stupid.
Jun 022023
The choice is better thoughts or our own.
May 312023
I would be more willing to speculate on the motives of others if I had a clearer understanding of my own.
May 242023
To act one must disregard some of the possible consequences of one’s actions: this we call morality.
May 162023
Intelligence does not improve one’s thoughts, but it does increase their variance.
May 042023
Strenuous objections to the parts show acquiescence in the whole.