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You must have minimalism because every change, any change, has myriad side effects that can’t always be allowed for. If the change is too great and the side effects too many, then it becomes certain that the outcome will be far removed from anything you’ve planned and that it would be entirely unpredictable.”
People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.
It’s a mathematical way of analyzing human society that ends by predicting the future.”
The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to.”
Being feared is nothing. Being despised, even, can be lived with. But being laughed at—that’s fatal.
Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.”
“You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.
There was so much more in the past, so much less in the future, that the mind turned away from the looming shadow ahead to contemplate the safety of what had gone before.
