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Even after taking means had become commonplace, the thought that discarding information can increase information has not always been an easy sell.
“it is owing to a quality of the human mind, the source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone.”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
“Let us always search for the impossible, since that is our destiny, and let us search for it by way of the useless, since no path goes by any other way, but let us rise to the consciousness that nothing we search for can be found, and that nothing along the way deserves a fond kiss or memory.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“To read is to dream, guided by someone else’s hand.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
“A ship may seem to be an object whose purpose is to sail, but no, its purpose is to reach a port.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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