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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
 
We may learn everything about something, and we may learn something about everything, but we're never going to learn everything about everything.
 
VACATION: Time off to remind employees that the business can get along without them.
 
Thought forms in the soul in the same way clouds form in the air.
 
We are in the world as words are in a book. Each generation is like a line, a phrase.
 
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.
 
Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.
 
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
 
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
 
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
 
If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
 
Wholeness [Ganzheit], Gestalt, is the primary attribute of life.
 
We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.
 
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
 
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
 
Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].
 
We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.
 
Everything that is said is said by an observer.
 
When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.
 
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
 
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