Thought-criminals, like regular ones, would escape punishment more often if they could manage not to boast of their exploits.
Sep 282020
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 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.
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.