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You can claim to be a mathematician if, and only if, you feel that you will be able to solve a puzzle that neither you, nor anyone else, has studied before. That is the test of reasoning.
“One of the most familiar weaknesses of the human mind is the wish to reconcile contrary principles and buy peace at the expense of logic.”
― Democracy in America: A New Translation
― Democracy in America: A New Translation
“Pāli is a scholastic language now, it’s not a living language that changes. So it kind of holds concepts and then allows us to use words, to have an agreed vocabulary, ways of expressing and thinking that aren’t just bound into cultural conditioning or personal descriptions of experience.”
― The Sound of Silence: The Selected Teachings of Ajahn Sumedho
― The Sound of Silence: The Selected Teachings of Ajahn Sumedho
“No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.”
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“Nowhere do citizens seem more insignificant than in a democratic nation.”
― Democracy in America: A New Translation
― Democracy in America: A New Translation
“Discovering you were wrong is an update, not a failure, and your worldview is a living document meant to be revised.”
― The Scout Mindset: The Perils of Defensive Thinking and How to Be Right More Often
― The Scout Mindset: The Perils of Defensive Thinking and How to Be Right More Often
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