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The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
If you can't spontaneously detect (without analyzing) the difference between the sacred and profane, you'll never know what religion means. You will also never figure out what we commonly call art. You will never understand anything.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
There is a certain category of fool—the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic "scientist", the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call "epistemic arrogance", this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking “outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)