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“Learn to read history, get all the knowledge you can, do not frown on the anecdote, but do not draw any causal links, do not try to reverse engineer too much -- but if you do, do not make big scientific claims.”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.”
― Summa Contra Gentiles: Volumes 1-4 in Five Books
― Summa Contra Gentiles: Volumes 1-4 in Five Books
“Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.”
― Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
― Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
“Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belaboured by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon.”
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
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