Denis de Rougemont Quotes
Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.
Denis de Rougemont
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The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.
Ellen Ullman
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-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.
Epictetus
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A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton
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Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.
William Arthur Ward
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Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Maggie Kuhn
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I never meet a church that wishes they didn't do it. I never meet a leader that wishes they didn't do it. They will all say, to the person, it's hard. It's difficult. It comes with complexities and confusion as you're trying to go across cultures, and you don't understand, you didn't mean to offend somebody but you've offended somebody. But they will all say it just does something.
Michael Emerson
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The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.
Albert Einstein
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You know you're gonna have failures, there's no way to avoid it. Especially if you're an entrepreneur, if you're doing something new, of course there are gonna be mistakes. How can you not make mistakes? You don't know what you're going; it's unchartered territory.
Trip Hawkins
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Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
Jonathan Swift
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Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.
Denis de Rougemont
