4-1-2021 “Among all my patients in the second half of life there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.” Carl Jung … Read More
Category Archives: aphorism
4-1-2021 “Science is one of humanity’s greatest inventions. Academia, on the other hand, is not.” Richard McElreath … Read More
4-1-2021 “It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” A.N. Whitehead … Read More
4-1-2021 Thinking is often conflated with imagining, concepts conflated with images. Both are states of living organisms, but thinking necessarily involves abstractions mediated through language, whereas imagining is the process of standing in direct relation to a symbolic image from which abstractions can be made. … Read More
3-30-2021 “Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.” William Blake … Read More
3-30-2021 God is super but natural. … Read More
3-30-2021 “The scientist does not study nature because it is useful, he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.” Henri Poincaré … Read More
3-25-2021 “The energetic activity considered in physics is the emotional intensity entertained in life.” A.N. Whitehead … Read More
3-25-2021 “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” Emerson Pugh … Read More
3-25-2021 Prose may be understood as a reduction of poetry, but poetry cannot be understood by amplifying prose. Poetry is crucial because it introduces the more comprehensive category. … Read More