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Ангел Тончев

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“A population of four million is not quantitatively but qualitatively different from an individual, because it involves systems of interaction among the individuals.”
― Paul Watzlawick, Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution

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“I began my comedy as its only actor, and I come to the end of it as its only spectator.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

tags: detached-observer, wisdom

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“But when the sun drops closer to the earth, the cold of the earth runs to it from the water and causes all green things to dry up. And because the sun has dropped closer to the earth, the days are short, and it is winter.”
― Hildegard of Bingen, Selected Writings

tags: mystical-experience

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“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
― Ted Chiang, Exhalation

tags: behavior, belief, civilization, coma, decisions, free-will, lie, matter, reality, self-deception

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“I’ve gone into the outside world to reobserve society. The sign language of emotion I once knew has been replaced by a matrix of interrelated equations. Lines of force twist and elongate between people, objects, institutions, ideas. The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do. At”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

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