The most effective way to learn is by devoting oneself to a single subject for months at a time. Its opposite is school.
May 222013
May 212013
We all know intimately many more fictional characters than real ones.
May 202013
Philosophers are careful not to derive ought from is, less so about deriving is from ought.
May 172013
Whatever the world’s greatest criminal mastermind is doing, it’s sure to be legal.
May 162013
To listen to people with talent, you might almost believe that there is no such thing.
May 152013
To gauge opinion, check bond prices.
May 142013
Polytheism is pre-scientific: monotheism is anti-scientific.
May 132013
We all want to be happy, just not at the expense of the qualities that make us unhappy.
May 102013
Now that the symptoms of genius have been thoroughly advertised, one sees a great deal more of the symptoms.
May 092013
Some men, like Balzac’s Goriot, are made of money, and when it ends so do they.