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Perhaps an inability to imagine the end made the end more likely.
“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“As Eisenhower said (in a very different context to be sure, but the point applies here as well), “plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”
― The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method
― The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method
“As presented in thinkers like Sartre, Heidegger, and Camus, it is a grim affair, stoically affirming human freedom, limited as it is, in a contingent, accidental universe. But aside from the explicit beliefs—or lack of them—associated with existentialism, its essence is a concern with the meaning of human existence, a question that religion also used to address but which it seems to have mislaid some time ago. And this meaning, existentialism argues, cannot be discovered by sitting in an armchair and contemplating life. It can only be found by living—which, in any case, is unavoidable.”
― Revolutionaries of the Soul: Reflections on Magicians, Philosophers, and Occultists
― Revolutionaries of the Soul: Reflections on Magicians, Philosophers, and Occultists
“The person who doesn’t read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.”
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“Wicked problems are social problems. Global warming requires individuals to change what they are ‘doing’ in enough numbers to reverse the damage. But they won’t do that unless their ‘being’ can be changed and they can be connected with enough like-minded individuals through ‘relating’ to push through the change that alters the ‘doing’ and the actual interacting.”
― Wicked & Wise: How to solve the world's toughest problems
― Wicked & Wise: How to solve the world's toughest problems
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