Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.