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“A population of four million is not quantitatively but qualitatively different from an individual, because it involves systems of interaction among the individuals.”
― Paul Watzlawick, Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution

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“You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

tags: things-as-they-are

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“it follows that there are two different types of change: one that occurs within a given system which itself remains unchanged, and one whose occurrence changes the system itself.”
― Paul Watzlawick, Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution

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“But when the sun drops closer to the earth, the cold of the earth runs to it from the water and causes all green things to dry up. And because the sun has dropped closer to the earth, the days are short, and it is winter.”
― Hildegard of Bingen, Selected Writings

tags: mystical-experience

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“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
― Ted Chiang, Exhalation