I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.

Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

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