The humble person delights in the fact that there is so much they have yet to know. An arrogant person is typically insecure, comparing their knowledge to the knowledge of others, and thereby turning knowledge into the intellectual equivalent of a handbag.

In this house we believe:

“The worst disease that can affect a community is intellectual confusion and the loss of an ambitious objective, which can only be provided by philosophy and religion.” — Plato, Phaedrus

What got me here won’t get me there. Insanity is doing the thing that worked over and over again and expecting it to keep working. If it ain’t broke, fix it.

"And they heard the voice of the Lord God, walking in the garden in the cool of the day" (Genesis 3:8)

LLMs are peace-time CEOs. Human beings are war-time CEOs.

Plato vibes.

God is not an accountant.

Tourism is the consolation prize of ruined civilizations.

We don't read books to absorb their lessons, we read books to co-create their lessons. We don't discuss books to elicit their lessons, we discuss them to co-create their lessons.

Just because it's convenient to believe, doesn't mean it's false.

“To be or not to be. That is the question…Strike that. The question is why I make everything into some ultimatum. Chill, Hamlet, chill.”

“The descent into Hell is easy; but to retrace your steps and climb back up to the daylight, that is hard!” — Virgil, The Aeneid

Buddhists: Reduce your suffering by approximating death. Knights of Faith: Borrow joy from the future to juice your emotional balance sheet in the present.

If God didn't exist we'd have to invent Him. (Voltaire) If Man didn't exist we'd have to invent Him. (Genesis 1:26)

"The most thought provoking thing about our thought provoking time is that we are still not yet thinking"

The Pre-Socratics were ahead of their time:

"Masters without relevance, entertainers without understanding, this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”

Atheists don't believe in the straw man God that the most compelling religious thinkers also don't believe in.

“Mix a little foolishness with your prudence; it's good to play dumb at the right moment.” — Horace, Ars Poetica #playingdumb #fool #horace