Monthly Archives: January 2015
Back in balance.
The counterweight to extreme moderation is moderate extremism.
Why have I studied intellectual history?
So I can learn why I believe the things that we believe.
The decided comes after the decision.
A decision puts an end to a long chain of discourse. Meaning from the surrounding sentences rushes in, filling the gap.
The senses are strange.
First of all, as some Marxists would point out, they have a history. Second of all, as some Buddhists would maintain, they must be purified.
I am ahead or behind the curve?
You only have the right to ask this question if your bent is a little different.
Numbers game.
One who says “one, but not one” is saying “two, but not two” too.
I am not a professor: this is a profession.
I am a teacher and a student: class is always in session.
Researchers boast of unexpected results.
They suppose, on dubious sociological and psychological assumptions, that such results signal the absence of preconceptions or a willingness to accept truth.
Mutual reinforcement.
The doubt of the faithless cannot compare to the doubt of the faithful.
Art of Aphorism 
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