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.
Aug 032020
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
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.
May 222020
Just as there are ideas so mad that you must be clever to believe them, so there is behavior so weird that you must be clever to engage in it.
May 082020
The speech-censors make their presence known; the thought-censors censor first the thought that they exist.
May 062020
A man’s belief system is a miracle of construction, apparently rickety and jerry-built, yet sturdy enough to withstand the introduction of a new fact or idea without being altered or disturbed.
Apr 272020
Hidden depths are only unrecorded thoughts, which have ceased to exist.
Apr 152020
Any remotely promising new idea will promptly be seized on to explain everything.