“The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspense of judgment appear the only result of...

philosophybits: “It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.” — Voltaire, Zadig

thirdity: “There is an art of listening. To be able really to listen, one should abandon or put aside all...

philosophybits: “True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so...

“I was walking about in Cambridge and passed a bookshop, and in the window were portraits of Russell, Freud and...

[Revised entry by Christian Wildberg and Tommaso De Robertis on January 31, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] John Philoponus,...

philosophybits: “For man holds his ground only by surpassing himself, in the same sense in which it is said that...

“Do not at all hold back trust … wherever there is a channel for understanding, but understand each thing in...