The opposite of hypocrisy is overconfidence.
Mar 232016
Mar 222016
War puts the pacific virtues to use, but peace can do nothing with the martial ones.
Mar 212016
The belief that one is entirely self-created has been possible only in a very few times and places. It is an accident of circumstance.
Mar 182016
Western religious and secular thought have finally converged on the idea that to be good it is necessary only to believe that you are.
Mar 172016
The fat man should never eat the last doughnut.
Mar 162016
For diminishing returns read philosophy; for network effects read history.
Mar 152016
If you publicize your errors vigorously, eventually someone will say they are remembered because you were right so often.
Mar 142016
The great enemy of men is Man.
Mar 112016
Occasionally the operation succeeds but the patient dies; far more often it fails but the patient survives.
Mar 102016
Philosophers can go on about knowing nothing for quite some time.