Though men are inseparable from the Logos, yet they are separated in it; and though they encounter it daily, they are alienated from it Fragments
History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined. Book VII
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
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