More Right than he Knew he Was

Thomas Mann once remarked, against Nietzsche, that the world never suffers from a surfeit of reason. And he never went online!

Leon Wieseltier, "Reason and the Republic of Opinion" (via)

Bilingualism and Cognition

"It’s easier to bear in mind that the map is not the territory when you have two different maps."

- Eric S. Raymond, "Cognitive disinhibition: not the whole story of genius"