Quotes
“The greatest trick the devil ever played was making you believe that the pessimists are the good guys.” – Packy McCormick
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“Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.” — Mahatma Gandhi
"The trouble with modern theories of behaviorism is not that they are wrong but that they could become true, that they actually are the best possible conceptualization of certain obvious trends in modern society."
— Hannah Arendt
— Hannah Arendt
“In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”
Kwame Anthony Appiah (via Graham Duncan, The Playing Field)
Kwame Anthony Appiah (via Graham Duncan, The Playing Field)
“We are built with an almost infinite capacity to believe things because the beliefs are advantageous for us to hold, rather than because they are even remotely related to the truth.” – Dee Hock
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If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr
“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its wings.”
Charlie Wardle