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But the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there’s nothing freeing about that.
“Furthermore, when their social contraptions fail to fly, ideologues blame not themselves but all who see through the simplifications.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Each of us has many, many maps in our head, which can be divided into two main categories: maps of the way things are, or realities, and maps of the way things should be, or values.”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Ideologies are simple ideas, disguised as science or philosophy, that purport to explain the complexity of the world and offer remedies that will perfect it.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Meysam’s 2025 Year in Books
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