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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
 
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
 
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
 
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
 
The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.
 
Most people are afraid to stand alone; they are afraid to think things out for themselves, afraid to feel deeply, to explore and discover the whole meaning of life.
 
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
 
Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.
 
Sapiens rule the world because only they can weave an intersubjective web of meaning: a web of laws, forces, entities and places that exist purely in their common imagination. This web allows humans alone to organise crusades, socialist revolutions and human rights movements.
 
There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.
 
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
 
There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity
 
The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.
 
The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.
 
Intelligence, then, is the ability to attain goals in the face of obstacles by means of decisions based on rational (truth-obeying) rules. The computer scientists Allen Newell and Herbert Simon fleshed this idea out further by noting that intelligence consists of specifying a goal, assessing the current situation to see how it differs from the goal, and applying a set of operations that reduce the difference. Perhaps reassuringly, by this definition human beings, not just aliens, are intelligent. We have desires, and we pursue them using beliefs, which, when all goes well, are at least approximately or probabilistically true.
 
The Observer is the Observed.
 
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
 
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
 
I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
 
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
 
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