“[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
(Letter 16, 1657)”
― The Provincial Letters
(Letter 16, 1657)”
― The Provincial Letters
“Better to be tentative than to be recklessly sure- to be an apprentice at sixty, than to present oneself as a doctor at ten.”
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“Not everything that can be counted counts.
Not everything that counts can be counted.”
― Informal Sociology: a casual introduction to sociological thinking
Not everything that counts can be counted.”
― Informal Sociology: a casual introduction to sociological thinking
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