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the height of absurdity in serving up pure nonsense, in stringing together
senseless and extravagant masses of words, such as had previously been known
only in madhouses, was finally reached in Hegel, and became the instrument
of the most beautiful mystification that has ever taken place, with a result
which will appear fabulous to posterity, and will remain as a monument of
German stupidity. - Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea, II, 22.

"Common sense should not be confused with %2common opinions%1, namely the
beliefs we can readily formulate when asked: these are often false
overgeneralisations or merely the result of prejudice.  Common sense
is a rich and profound store of information, not about laws, but about
what people are capable of doing, thinking or experiencing.  But common
sense, like our knowledge of the grammar of our native language, is hard
to get at and articulate, which is one reason why so much of philosophy,
psychology and social science is vapid, or simply false". - Aaron
Sloman in the introduction to his book 
"The Computer Revolution in Philosophy".

"But the height of audacity in serving up pure nonsense, in stringing
together senseless and extravagant mazes of words, such as had previously
been known only in madhouses, was finally reached in Hegel, and became the
instrument of the most bare-faced general mystification that has ever
taken place, with a result that will appear fabulous to posterity, and
will remain as a monument to German stupidity".

"Life is not made for happiness but for achievement" Durant - The story of
Philosophy, p. 297, paraphrasing Hegel.

"When we read, another person thinks for us; we merely repeat his mental
process.... So it comes about that if anyone spends his whole day
in reading, ... he gradually loses the capacity for thinking. - Schopenhauer.
II, 254 Essays, Books and Reading; Counsels and Maxims p.21

"As it stands, we have on our hands a generation of students so harried
by today's pop ethics that many of the best consider careers in a
regulatory bureaucracy or a romantic retreat to the design of small
tools as the only remaining respectable form of scientific or technological
endeavor". - Richard L. Meehan in Science 11 May 1979.
 
"So, when on one side you hoist Locke's head, you go over
that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in
Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor
plight.  Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming
boat.  Oh, ye foolish!  throw all these thunderheads
overboard, and then you will float light and right".
Moby Dick, chapter 73, near the end

"The same theory and methods that yielded Freud's most compelling
analytic insights underlie the analyst Abrahamsen's (1977) "discovery"
about Richard Nixon.  The ten year old Nixon apparently was proud
of his ability to mash potatoes so smoothly that there were no lumps.
Potatoes, Abrahamsen solemnly observes, were a substitute for people."
Nisbett and Ross, Human Inference, p.243.

"A major problem with the assumption (even in Freud's hands, but
especially in the hands of many followers) is the uncertainty of
criteria for determining when it is the patient's associative
networks that have been laid bare and when it is the analyst's."
ibid.

"I beeseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you
may be wrong". - Cromwell.