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“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power”
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“We do not sustain ourselves in virtue by our own strength, but by the balancing of two opposed vices, just as we remain upright amidst two contrary gales. Remove one of the vices, and we fall into the other.”
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“All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.”
― On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura
― On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex conditions order, and adaptation to the unknown, can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions and that a division of authority will actually extend the possibility of overall order. Yet that decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account.”
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
― The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
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