Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.
Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.
It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.
The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.
A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Caution is the path to mediocrity.
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.
The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.
Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.
If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.
Face your fears or they will climb over your back.
Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion
There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
The universe does not work by our rules
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