In a way, doing these are a way to not have to think of something original to write. On the other hand, some of these I made up to begin with, so originality isn’t the problem. Anyway, a few more.
Most correlations are noncausal; when correlations are causal, the fact and the strength of the correlation rarely specify the nature of the cause.
“The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.” John Stuart Mill
“Apart from logical agency, there is to me something a little odd about the ethical valuations of those who think that an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent Deity, after preparing the ground by many millions of years of lifeless nebulae, would consider himself adequately rewarded by the final emergence of Hitler and Stalin and the H-Bomb.” Betrand Russell
