There are no uncaused events. If miracles are uncaused events, then there are no miracles. But the unexpected, the never-before-seen, the unlikely, the novel surely do exist. We can be astonished by what we don’t know and live in territories where mystery abounds without endorsing metaphysical nonsense.
Category Archives: Aphorisms
Calculation
An imitator is afraid of looking like a fool; an original is afraid of being one.
Wholeheartedness is Over-rated
“When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” – Walt Disney. On matters of importance perhaps we shouldn’t treat the creator of Mickey Mouse as an authority. True believers are invariably intellectually lazy never bothering to become informed and lacking the humility to change their minds.
The Laughter of Gods
Should we fear the morning sun since it has spent so much time in the dark? We pray for its arrival, but it can be fierce, insistent, searing. Better to shelter in thick fog, with eyes unburdened, snugly unaware. Einstein wrote “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge isContinue reading “The Laughter of Gods”
Flip Side
Hegel said “Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion”—and nothing sinister or evil either.
Philosophy: A Way of Life 