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- The most unexciting possibilities of thought lie beyond thought: we think towards the unthought the way a mariner sails towards the horizon.
- Philosophy is a petri-dish in which single-celled tropes emerge, evolve into multi-cellular concepts, continue to mutate.
- Any good philosopher can teach children; a bad philosopher requires a room full of grad students.
- And yet, the clearest philosophers are simultaneously the most obscure. Crystallization — the process of making concepts more efficient — also makes them more difficult to understand at first pass.
- Philosophers: encoders. Critics: decoders.
- By putting different kinds of ideas side by side, the fractalization of thought becomes apparent. As you move up and down different levels of thinking, you begin to notice symmetries and links — pictures within pictures — everywhere. Analogies, therefore, create depth by uniting levels.
- A good philosophical concept is like an investment fund, bundling different wealth-producing ideas together.
- Often weeds are the most nutritious part of the greens garden — surprisingly edible.
- If memory is defined as stored information, then what is not memory?
- What language is the language of thought based on?
- Eliminating misunderstanding would eliminate understanding the same way eliminating disease would eliminate health.
