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I am not always the person I mean to be,

Dolly Chugh • The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

“The mind cannot form any notion of quantity or quality without forming a precise notion of degrees of each.” “Abstract ideas are in themselves individual, however they may become general in their representation.” This theory, which is a modern form of nominalism, has two defects, one logical, the other psychological.

Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy

In this world we have two kinds of knowledge. One is Planck knowledge, the people who really know. They’ve paid the dues, they have the aptitude. And then we’ve got chauffeur knowledge. They’ve learned the talk. They may have a big head of hair, they may have fine temper in the voice, they’ll make a hell of an impression. But in the end, all they h... See more

Shane Parrish • Two Types of Knowledge: The Max Planck/Chauffeur Test

We should try always to use language to illuminate, reveal and clarify rather than obscure, mislead and conceal. The language should be safe in our hands

Philip Pullman • Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling

If your sentence has more than two commas, you have too many.

Dr. Frank Luntz • Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear

preference for personal integrity is based on the moral absurdity

Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do

His Formula of Humanity states that treating any human being (or any consciousness) as a means to some other end is the basis of all wrong behavior.

Mark Manson • Everything Is Fcked: A Book About Hope (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck (2 Book Series))

An argument that needs repetition is rarely convincing.

Dee Hock • Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 2

La dissociation de la pensée et des actes est nécessaire à l’existence même de la pensée abstraite. Ainsi, nous pouvons parfaitement penser ou dire une chose et en faire une autre. Cela ne pose aucun problème lorsqu’on se contente de réfléchir avant d’agir, mais ce n’est peut-être pas une si bonne chose quand on promet ou prétend croire quelque cho