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The Index of Forbidden Books was no light matter.

Francesco Petrarch, himself coined the term ‘Middle Ages’ to denote the long period which separated his own time from the world of classical antiquity

kick your own arse. väldigt conan rekommendation.

Look at failure as an event, not a person.
Look for the why, and find the solution (If you look at “no” hard enough, it will lead you to yes).
List possible opportunities.
Ask yourself, what have I learned? And try again.
Don’t mope around with other failures—go find a successful person, and hang around him.

For Paul a cardinal virtue is charity — caritas; in Greek, agape — meaning ‘love for one’s fellow men’. This notion, which is wholly inclusive — “There isneither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female’ — he takes from Jesus’s own summary of the moral law, which is to love god with all your heart, and your neighbour as yourself.

plan for the day

Network where their best customers and prospects go.

Eld - passion - överlevnad

Promises to be kept

Ledarskap genom exempel, tyranni som verktyg att undertrycka konflikter.

Mål: återköp per vana

Kundnytta

Reor ger ingen stabil kundbas

1. Sälj -annars.
2. Kan inte tråka en kund
3. Discipline of knowledge över okunskapens anarki
5. Kunden är inte en idiot, utan din partner
8. Skapa bara material du är ok att visa din familj.

A threat of force is not a logical ground for accept- ing a conclusion, even if self-preservation dictates otherwise; but self-preservation or, more generally, self-interest is a corrupting reason to accept a moral injunction.

Since this answer consists in a threat, as a reason for obeying god it can only be a prudential one (‘Ifyou do not wish to be punished, do as you are told’), for it is otherwise not a logical reason for obedi- ence, since it commits the fallacy of argumentumn ad baculum, the appeal to force.

the counsel to culti- vate a fortitudinous self-mastery in the face of hunger and illness, poverty and perennial confrontation with pain, was useless.

Yet this very fact explains the weakness of the philosophies. They were too difficult, too dry, too austere, too rational for the vast majority of the populace. Both Epicureanism and Stoicism taught indifference to fortune in order to gain peace of mind; but for ordi- nary people faced by harsh and difficult lives,

for which reli- gion is, mostly, the technology of man’s impotence, originated in earliest times, in the face of an indifferent and often cruel nature.

Not all religions are expressly ethical, even when they have systems of taboos about (for example) when to eat and what not to eat, and elaborate rituals designed to make the spirits, the ancestors, or the gods, perform their functions as required by humans — for example, to provide needed amounts of rainfall, or safe childbirth, or any of the other practical concerns

In The Meditations Aurelius iterates the basic Stoic view of the uni- verse as a living organic unity, in which everything is mutually related, and in which human individuals are ‘limbs’ of the whole.

Alms produce poverty, caring for the abandoned child makes more abandoned

The trees are in their autumn beauty
The woodlands paths are dry
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky

Gralsången

Milton - frihet och eftergivenhet

Zimbardo - heroismens banalitet - appliceras på företag

Galenskap som fördel - viljan att använda produkten själv

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