“[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures that people experience the consequences of their own acts. Property sets up fences, but it also surrounds us with mirrors, reflecting back upon us the consequences of our own behavior.” PeopleActionMaterialsBehaviorConsequenceEconomicsResponsibleMirrorsPropertyRealmsGoodsSurroundRegimesFenceReflectingPrivate PropertyReflecting Back Author:Tom Bethell
“Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.” LooksEyeRememberVirtueTroubleSubjectsModelsConsequenceMirrorsPatternsVicesExposedVice And Virtue Author:Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
“The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative effects of others' actions. It is like a set of invisible mirrors that surround individuals, households or firms, reflecting back on them the consequences of their acts. The industrious will reap the benefits of their industry; the frugal the consequences of their frugality; the improvident and the profligate likewise. They receive their due, which is to say they experience justice as a matter of routine.” PeopleMatterActionIndividualJusticeEffectsIndustryBlessingBenefitsConsequenceNegativeMirrorsPropertyDuesInvisibleFirmSurroundRoutineHouseholdReflectingReapPrivate PropertyFrugalityIndustriousFrugalReflecting Back Author:Tom Bethell
“We can teach children about natural consequences and cause and effect of their relationships which is really a mirror of what happens in nature.” ChildrenHappensCausesNaturalTeachEffectsConsequenceMirrorsCause And EffectNatural Consequences Author:Shefali Tsabary
“[Black Mirror] is always about unforeseen consequences and unforeseen problems, it's not usually that someone's created a machine that they want to enslave mankind with, it's someone's invented a new kind of... paperweight that enslaves mankind.” WantKindProblemBlackMankindConsequenceMachinesMirrorsUnforeseen Author:Charlie Brooker
“Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we grasp onto the physical forms we see. Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we cling to the sounds we hear. As a consequence, we make ourselves inseparable from all things, yet we are not like some shadowy figure 'lodging' in a mirror or like the moon in water. Whenever we witness what is on the one side, its opposite side will be in darkness.” MindBodyFormSoundSidesWaterDarknessFiguresMoonConsequenceAll ThingsOppositesMirrorsBuddhistWitnessInseparable Author:Dogen
“The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the asymmetry of the universe or of the consequence of this fact. The universe is asymmetrical; for if one placed the entire set of bodies that compose the solar system, each moving in its own way, before a mirror, the image shown would not be superimposable on the reality.” IfsWayLifeBelieveFactsBodyRealityMovingScienceUniverseConsequenceFunctionMirrorsEntitySolar SystemMoving InAsymmetry Author:Louis Pasteur
“The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.” LifeFormScienceUniverseResultsKnownRolesConsequenceDirectMirrorsChemistryMoleculesIndirectMirror ImageMicroorganismsAsymmetry Author:Louis Pasteur