“We appreciate beautiful things not for their utility only, but also for what they are in themselves—or more plausibly, for how they appear in themselves.”
― Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
― Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
“To dare a thought is to risk being wrong.”
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.”
― Beauty
― Beauty
“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
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“You may conquer an army with superior tactics and men, but you can conquer a nation only by conquering the hearts of the people.”
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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