German Romantic Philosophy : the romantic notion that German philosophy explains anything.

Nor does history end. It just gets squeezed out to allow more prep time for the standardized tests.

History, noted Oscar Wilde, doesn't repeat itself. Historians repeat each other. Often, we've learned, word for word.

Plagiarism is, at worst, a clerical error. At best, nothing short of inspiration.

Miscomprehension is that comprehension which is taken to be correct until technology reveals the actual nature of what is.

I find it advisable in poetry, as in life, to begin with the probability that God is too complex to be perceived by our senses or understood by our minds. A God anything less than this inscrutable, as a corollary to Anselm's theorem might demonstrate, would not be God, with the result that God ...

Of all the ways of making the weaker argument seem the stronger, merely stating that the weaker argument is an alternative to the stronger is one of the more subtle. Saying that further research into the matter is required is subtler still.