Category: Aphorisms and Observations
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Extremity and Untenability
The extremity of a thesis is a defeasible indicator of its untenability.
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He Who Starts Out at Persiflage . . .
. . . may end up at billingsgate. A hazard on the road of idle talk.
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Borders
Borders are part of the body politic's immune system.
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Arrogance and Superiority
'Arrogant' is an adjective applied by the envious to the superior.
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Suggestibility
People are astonishingly suggestible. But is suggestibility always bad? Belonging to a community of believers reinforces one in one's belief. If the belief is true and life-enhancing, then so is the suggestibility that promotes it. Related articles A Part-Time Monk's Solution to Suggestibility Colin McGinn on Brigand Lighter Aquinas and Why the New Atheists are…
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If Comfort is no Criterion of Truth . . .
. . . then neither is discomfort.
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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
In belief as in action.
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Vanitas
Live life to the full to appreciate that it is empty.
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People Have Their Uses
We need those distorting mirrors called other people to achieve self-knowledge. For a distorting mirror, while it distorts, also mirrors.
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Sophia
The word flashed before my mind when the alarm went off. The love of wisdom is real in some of us, but the attainment of wisdom may be forever beyond all of us. To live well, however, we must live as if wisdom is attainable, if not in this life, then in the next. And…
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The ‘Good’ of Blogging
It may bring about a degeneration of your writing that qualifies you to become a journalist.
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Health and Money
Although their presence is insufficient for happiness, their absence is sufficient for misery.
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A Paradox of Plenty
Complain if you like about the low level of your students, but bear in mind that you probably wouldn't have a teaching job if if it weren't for the decline in standards that led to the expansion of 'higher education.'
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Keep Your Own Counsel
That is my advice. Now apply it to what I have just advised.
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A Difference Between Democrats and Republicans
Democrats 'circle the wagons' while Republicans prefer a different type of circularity, that of the 'circular firing squad.' Related articles The Democrats Have Moved Farther to the Left than the Republicans to the Right 'The Punishment Must Fit the Crime' and Lex Talionis Harry Reid on Burden of Proof