Friday 19 October 2012

Humans and Triangles. — That human nature is unchangeable and everywhere the same does not mean that all humans are always and everywhere the same. Likewise, that the nature of triangularity is unchangeable and everywhere the same does not mean that all triangles are always and everywhere the same: there are equilateral, scalene, and isosceles triangles, big triangles, little triangles, more perfect ones, less perfect ones, red ones, green ones, iron-wrought ones, and so on. Humanity and triangularity are the bare determinations or essences by which something counts respectively as a human or a triangle in the first place rather than as a salmon or a square.

Saturday 6 October 2012

The change from a culture of honour to a culture of dignity was accompanied of course by a great loss of dignity.
Modern life draws deep from the surface of things.
The expectation that someone will turn up and do the logically impossible is the reverence that misology pays to inventive genius.
Let niceness be reckoned amongst the most powerful forces of the underworld. Once the Devil is unchained, niceness invites him to tea.
With every step of the social and political movement for emancipation, there arises the kind of man who is more in need of repression than the one before, and so advances the movement for enslavement.
Art and religion are always a danger to the mechanical regime. They threaten the restoration of humanity.
Stereotypes possess high-predictive value. It is odd that so many self-declared friends of science reject them.