Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The mark of a moderate woman is freedom from her own ideas.
~ Lao Zi
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Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
― Walter Benjamin
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The church that Joseph Smith set about building was almost achingly American. He held up the Constitution as a quasi-canonical work of providence. He published a new sacred text, the Book of Mormon, that centered on Jesus visiting the ancient Americas. He even taught that God had brought about the American Revolution so that his Church could be restored in a free country—thus linking Mormonism’s success to that of the American experiment. And yet, almost as soon as Smith started attracting converts, they were derided as un-American.
~ McKay Coppins via The Atlantic
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The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The tragedy of Steve Bannon is that when he leaves the White House, he’s known as the great manipulator, the intellectual heavy of the international populist uprising. But still he ends up in the fetal position at Donald Trump’s feet.
~ Sam Nunberg via American Rasputin
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Every jump of technical progress leaves the relative intellectual development of the masses a step behind, and thus causes a fall in the political-maturity thermometer. It takes sometimes tens of years, sometimes generations, for a people’s level of understanding gradually to adapt itself to the changed state of affairs, until it has recovered the same capacity for self-government as it had already possessed at a lower stage of civilization.
~ Arthur Koestler
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Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?
~ Friedrich Hayek
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