Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Wisdom

  • Generalizations are the Offspring of Wisdom

    People foolishly oppose generalization. One often hears, 'Never generalize!' But that itself is a generalization in the imperative mood. The partisan of brute particularity who so opines is hoist by his own petard. So it was with pleasure that I heard Dennis Prager one day  remark   that "Generalizations are the mother of wisdom." But my…

  • The Less I Know of You . . .

    . . . the more highly I can think of you. And the more highly I think of myself, the less I know of myself.

  • There is no Wisdom on the Left

    The Left is at war with wisdom, as Dennis Prager here argues.  And so one can only laugh at Hillary's latest money-grubbing venture in assuagement of her bottomless avarice, a book in which she casts  pearls of her 'essential' wisdom before the deplorable swine.  Here is one of her immortal pearls. Now hear Mr. Prager:…