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The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society. Most of the advantages of social life, especially in the more advanced forms that we call ‘civilization’ rest on the fact that the individual benefits from more knowledge than he is aware of.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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A good artist lets her intuition lead her wherever it wants.
~ Lao Zi
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.
~ William Faulkner
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Revolutions happen when the distinct concerns of many different groups are for a time more or less soldered together—and this coming together is not planned in advance, but produced largely by chance.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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The true sign of decadence is not the collusion of the university and the state, but the theory and guarantee of academic freedom, when in reality people assume with brutal simplicity that the aim of study is to steer its disciples to a socially conceived individuality.
― Walter Benjamin
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
~ Claude Shannon
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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