The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
There isn’t anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can’t believe it.
Mark Twain, as quoted in The Consciousness Deniers, Galen Strawson (NYRB, March 13, 2018)
Mark Twain, as quoted in The Consciousness Deniers, Galen Strawson (NYRB, March 13, 2018)
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Retracing your steps can help you remember what you were looking for. Your memory of a thought is married to the place in which it first occurred to you.
Jennifer Ackerman, The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman, The Genius of Birds
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Everybody has a plan, till they get punched in the mouth.
Mike Tyson, as quoted by Avishai Margalit in the NYRB.
Mike Tyson, as quoted by Avishai Margalit in the NYRB.
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