Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Category Archive: Canadian
My first Kickstarter project created a book called ‘Clear and Present Thinking’, a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side.
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I’d say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We’re not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal – and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.
Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they’re both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that’s almost happening, never quite totally happening.