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“Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him... he won't understand a word of it.”
The Castle • Franz Kafka“When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.”
The Art Of War • Sun Tzu“My views may seem to ignore a moral imperative that businesses should follow virtuous principles, whether or not it is most profitable for them to do so. Instead I prefer to recognize that, throughout human history, [...] government regulation has arisen precisely because it was found to be necessary for the enforcement of moral principles. Invocation of moral principles is a necessary first step for eliciting virtuous behavior, but that alone is not a sufficient step.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“That science is incapable of solving in its own way those fundamental questions is no sufficient reason for slighting them”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man”
Fragments • Heraclitus