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3132 E Johann W. von Goethe Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
Government
Government
10234 E Yuval Noah Harari You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
Human nature
Human nature
4102 E Oscar Wilde There is only one thing in the world that is worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Talking
Talking
2408 E Albert Einstein Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Simplicity
Simplicity
8441 E Sam Harris The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
Religion
Religion
16853 E Ludwig Wittgenstein If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Stupidity
Stupidity
8329 E Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
3554 E Niels Bohr No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
Thinking
Thinking
18030 E Erving Goffman Our identity is not a stable essence, but an ongoing project of presentation and performance.
Human relations
Human relations
3222 E George Washington It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Apology
Apology
4702 E Ambrose Bierce BIRTH: The first and dirtiest of all disasters.
Life
Life
3510 E Voltaire The way to become boring is to say everything.
Boredom
Boredom
3094 E H. G. Wells Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Indignation
Indignation
8345 E Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
9829 E Gregory Bateson The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.
Thinking
Thinking
9879 E Gregory Bateson A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.
Mind
Mind
12649 E Nora Bateson We cannot address complexity without using our own complexity.
Knowledge
Knowledge
4235 E Joseph Joubert To seek wisdom rather than truth. It is more within our grasp.
Wisdom
Wisdom
8584 E Alfred Korzybski "Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other words? "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
2795 E Emiliano Zapata I would rather die standing than live on my knees!
Death
Death