Ian Hulstein

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economics‎ (25)

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military-fantasy‎ (8)
mythology-folklore‎ (8)

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anthropology‎ (5)
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grim-dark‎ (4)

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Ian’s Quotes

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
― Epictetus

tags: philosophers, philosophy

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“What then, is it not possible to be free from faults? It is not possible; but this is possible: to direct your efforts incessantly to being faultess. For we must be content if by never remitting this attention we shall escape at least a few errors. When you have said "Tomorrow I will begin to attend," you must be told that you are saying this: "Today I will be shameless, disregardful of time and place, mean;it will be in the power of others to give me pain, today I will be passionate and envious.

See how many evil things you are permitting yourself to do. If it is good to use attention tomorrow, how much better is it to do so today? If tomorrow it is in your interest to attend, much more is it today, that you may be able to do so tomorrow also, and may not defer it again to the third day.”
― Epictetus, The Discourses

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“the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

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