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“They agree with the current customs. They consent with an impure age. Their principles have a semblance of right-heartedness and truth. Their conduct has a semblance of disinterestedness and purity. All men are pleased with them, and they think themselves right, but you cannot enter into the Way of Yao and Shun with them. For this reason they are called “The thieves of virtue.”
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“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
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“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free: if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
― The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05
― The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05
“The feeling that the government should “do something” has seldom been based on a comparison of what actually happens when government does and when it does not “do something.”
― Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
― Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
“[D]idn't Aristarchus and the Pythagoreans propose heliocentrism in ancient times? If only they had prevailed, we might have had Real Science millennia sooner. What was their evidence?
Well, you see, fire is nobler than earth and the center is a nobler position. So fire has to be in the center. QED.
There are many names for this sort of thinking, but "scientific" is not one of them.”
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Well, you see, fire is nobler than earth and the center is a nobler position. So fire has to be in the center. QED.
There are many names for this sort of thinking, but "scientific" is not one of them.”
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