In philosophy correspondence and coherence vary inversely.
Jun 292016
In philosophy correspondence and coherence vary inversely.
History, in one sense, is a succession of ever-widening protection rackets.
The most pleasing aesthetic effect is the happy accident.
List, and the world lists with you; abstract, and you abstract alone.
Your most reliable and attentive readers are the people who hate you.
You can talk a man out of an idea he is happy with only by making him unhappy with it.
To make, not the case that convinces me, but the one that I think will convince you, is not bad faith but good manners.
The truth shall set you on anyone who will listen.
It is not easy for a woman to win an author’s heart; she has to read his books.
At least you can deal with the devil; God just pushes everyone around.