Opinions are like sausages: if you know how they’re made they get harder to swallow.
Dec 232021
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
Dec 072021
Everyday inferences are probable, and thus logically fallacious.
Nov 152021
For heresy, like murder, there is no statute of limitations — not even centuries.
Nov 092021
Our thoughts run in loops, which we can hope only to make as long and deeply nested as possible.
Nov 042021
An idea traces its influence not from its origin, which is lost in time, but from the point when it becomes inescapable.
Oct 282021
The more a man doubts what he ought to believe, the more he believes what he ought to doubt.
Oct 042021
There is always an orthodoxy, as there is always a fish at the poker table, and if you can’t identify it then you believe it.
Sep 282021
The arguments worth having are with yourself.
Sep 132021
Choose your rabbit holes wisely.
Sep 072021
The world has always fought over ideas, whose truth is at best a minor strategic advantage.