The Philosopher's Attic

True genius can tell you a million things in three lines. Only lower minds need the chatter of a hundred pages to get meaning.
JP Jost, August 2010, Sion, Valais, Switzerland

People don't need to eat after dark. Besides, that'll just make them fat.
O.B. in a planning session about commodities in a skill lab

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
George Moore (1873-1958)

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn

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On my desk:
Mark Kermode, It's Only a Movie
Andy Andrews, The Noticer
Nicholas Ostler, Ad Infinitum

On my waiting list:
Michael Crichton, Next
Anthony Kenny, What I believe

Favourite Tea of the moment
Singbulli Inbetween Flush Darjeeling 2009 - Mariage Frères (Paris)

Favourite Coffee of the moment
Nespresso, Singatoba Special Club 2009

Favourite debate topic(s) of the moment
Germany buying stolen intel to undermine the banking secret
Are Human Sciences actually sciences?
Where does plagiarism start? Where does it end?