The Pangrammaticon

For a long time, I thought that literature was a cop out: one should live, not write. I occurs to me now that literature is a k...

Mandates are to justice as methods, to truth.

Institutions are our immediate point of contact with culture, the meaning of our acts on their face. Likewise, intuitions are our immediat...

Change my life? How easy for a headless piece of marble to be cut and chiseled! Why don't you come over here and say it to my f...

Philosophers who try to change our minds by telling us how they think are like poets who try to break our hearts by telling us how they feel...

Some would reduce the whole of epistemology and ontology to science. What is, they say, is what can be known scientifically. I will grant th...

The variety of faces heartens me. The variety of faces frightens me. Behind each pair of eyes, the image of a world in which mine loo...

I want to tell you something happened to me, so sweet and sorrowful that not even rain on flowers lain at the grave of a child evok...

Do we want this precision? I don't mean just: do we want to make the effort? To actually know the edge where our beliefs give way t...

Having renounced both the technical jargon of philosophy and the vulgar eloquence of poetry...

There is a sense in which the body is a machine. And a nonsense.

It's hard to believe that a hundred years have passed. They say say history goes back several thousand more.

Then, for an instant, she was as one fully capable of her own distress. It made me want to revive the long- abandoned tradition of ...

"from Latin continentia 'restraint, abstemiousness, moderation,' literally 'way one contains oneself'." ( EtymOnl...

My idea is quite simple and correct. It is quite simply correct.

Objection. "Philosophy is not poetry. It is the clarification of meanings through logical analysis; and picture language has no place ...

No one has the right to exist. It is a question of strength. This goes for peoples as well as persons, nations as well as individuals...

Any fact can be stated. Any act can be commanded. That is, they are tractable. It is nonsense to speak of a fact but refuse to say what is ...

Experience is the coordination of your ethics with your physics.

The danger of scientific knowledge and political power is that they lead us believe things and desire people without first imagining them. I...