Category: Aphorisms and Observations
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Between the Inhuman and the Unphilosophical
It is inhuman to care not at all about the praise of one's fellows, but unphilosophical to care much.
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Doubt and Belief
Doubting no more confers dubitability upon that which is doubted than believing confers credibility upon that which is believed.
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Why Control Negative Thoughts About Other People?
Negative thoughts are of the other, but in oneself. They cannot harm what they are of, but they can pollute and disturb what they are in.
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Against ‘Progressives’
Their need to change things argues no need in things for change.
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The Idolatry of the Transient
It is because we want more than the transient that we cling to it.
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Life and Chess
What has been said about chess may also apply to life: For a game it is too serious, and for seriousness too much of a game.
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Moralizing
'Moralizing' is what liberals call moral discourse, just as 'judgmentalism' is what they call the making of moral judgments. 'Hypocrite' is what they call those who preach high standards. Am I being fair? Fair enough. You are free to nuance the point to your satisfaction so long as you don't miss the truth behind my…
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Reason is a Whore?
Now that prostitutes have earned respectability as 'sex workers,' what should a latter-day Luther say about reason? That it is a lawyer?
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New Day, Old Thoughts
It's a new day. Why begin it with the rehearsal of old thoughts, some negative, all useless?
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A Proof of Your Wretchedness
You envy me?
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On Natural Science
Natural science pursued for its own sake is a magnificent and noble thing. But in the end one ought to consider whether it is but a high-minded diversion, an extremely high-level form of Pascalian divertissement.
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Talk is Cheap?
Talk is cheap to produce but often very costly in its effects. (An aphoristic condensation of James 3: 3-6)
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The Psalms
I find in the Psalms too much praising of a tribal god, and not enough seeking of the hidden God. But both are there.