Tales de Mileto pensaba que todo era agua.8 Aristóteles creía que todos los actos del ser humano tenían como fin la consecución de la felicidad.9 Nietzsche pensaba que toda acción humana tenía como propósito alcanzar el poder.10 Freud pensaba que el fin de todos los actos del ser humano era evitar la angustia.11 Todos estos gigantes del pensamiento cayeron en el enorme error del monismo,

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

والغرور أن يعتقد الشيء على خلاف ما هو به. فمن المغترين من غره ظنه الفاسد بأن الحياة الدنيا يقين ، والآخرة شك. وهؤلاء هم الكفار ، فإيمانهم تارة يحصل بعلة ، وتارة ببرهان ودليل ، وتارة بتقليد!

Como la estrella fugaz, el espejismo, la llama,
la ilusión mágica, la gota de rocío,
la burbuja en el agua,
como el sueño, el relámpago o la nube:
considera así todas las cosas.

Questions nearly everything Can think from first principles Tests things well Is good at not fooling himself Changes his mind regularly Laughs a lot Thinks holistically Thinks long-term And…doesn’t take himself too goddamn seriously.

For all our penny-wisdom, for all out soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.

Hence it is that men are much more naturally inclined to belief than to incredulity. And it is upon this principle, that the most ignorant and barbarous nations have frequently excelled in similitudes, comparisons, metaphors, and allegories, who have been weak and backward in distinguishing and sorting their ideas. And it is for a reason of this kind, that Homer and the oriental writers, though very fond of similitudes, and though they often strike out such as are truly admirable, seldom take care to have them exact; that is, they are taken with the general resemblance, they paint it strongly, and they take no notice of the difference which may be found between the things compared.

He supposed it was inevitable. Dip a person into one particular specialty deeply enough and long enough, and he would automatically begin to assume that specialists in all other fields were magicians, judging the depth of their wisdom by the breadth of his own ignorance...

Quizá los pensamientos que expongo en las siguientes páginas aún no están en boga ni tienen el favor general. El viejo hábito de no pensar que algo está mal puede dar la sensación de que está bien, y genera en un primer momento el impulso de defender las costumbres. Pero el tumulto pronto se apacigua. El tiempo hace más conversos que la razón.

All great masters in any line think positive thoughts, which they put into action with intensive desire tested and tempered by balanced judgement.

صاحب الفكرة الجديدة مجرم حتى تكتب لفكرته النجاح.

إنه لجزء من الطبيعة البشرية: أن نفكر بحكمة، وأن نتصرف بحماقة