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He may well have never said it at all :-)
Yeah - similar to the "they make a solitude and call it peace" speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgacus As an aside: Agricola's army is supposed to have camped on the hill where my house is!
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I would add that all atrocities depend on unreasonable people. Reasonable people keep the world running smoothly.
It cuts both ways. You're not wrong, and yet atrocities frequently depend on people following orders, which is something that only an unreasonable person won't do. Basically, for good or ill, history pivots around the unreasonable people. The reasonable ones might be bystanders or accomplices, but in either case, going with the flow is simply the reasonable thing to do.
In addition a society/culture made up of solely unreasonable people would quickly fall apart. While a society/culture of entirely reasonable people, if they had an excellent rule of law, would thrive.
When I was in my 20s I lived on a bicycle for a year, going around the lower 48 and Canada, and then up to Alaska. I lived for two weeks in Joshua Tree with a guy named Tom, who slept in a cave the whole time. One morning we were sorting our gear and a piece of paper fell out of his wallet. As I handed it back to him, I read the three lines on it: Work hard. Be strong. Don't complain. I asked him about it, and he sai…
I’ve co-opted Nike’s motto, and say it to myself in my head when I’m trying to get something done and am stumbling over anxiety, distraction, procrastination, perfectionism, etc. Just do it. May be trite, but it can be helpful for me.
Maybe I'm misremembering his exact phrasing, but if it works, it works...
Since Uni, I haven't changed this motto.
Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again. - Steve Jobs And in similar vain: Are you moving one step in 20 directions or 20 steps in one direction? I colle…
"Are you moving one step in 20 directions or 20 steps in one direction?" - in 20-dimensional space I may still be moving forward, even though I'm changing direction with each step ;)
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Now Go Create"