“Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted to howl in rage. It is not my place to do so. My job is to try to dissect the event, place it in context and try to understand what has happened and why. From that, after the rage cools, plans for action can be made. Rage has its place, but actions must be taken with discipline and thought.” PeopleTryingMadeMomentsActionJobsCan DoEmotionTakenPlansHappenedEventsDisciplineDistanceExtremesRageTemptedCarelessHowlCoolness Author:George Friedman
“Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the events to be accounted for about which we can get quantitative data are necessarily limited and may not include the important ones.” MayImportantDealsEventsPositionDisciplineAspectEconomicsComplexesDataPhenomenonPhysical Science Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“My art history papers were really politics. They were about the manifestation of culture through the eye of political events. So there was always that refusal to settle in one place, or one discipline or medium.” ArtEyePoliticalCultureEventsDisciplinePaperMediumsSettlingManifestationPapersRefusalThrough The EyesArt History Author:Roselee Goldberg
“Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, space, identity, resemblance, substance, property, fact, event, composition, possibility, etc., are the most fundamental concepts. Thus metaphysics is the most fundamental theoretical discipline.” FactsRealitySpaceStudyEventsIdentityPossibilityDisciplineConceptsFundamentalsStructurePropertySubstanceEtcCompositionMetaphysicsTheoreticalResemblance Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.” TryingHumansPersonsSelfHappensCareActionSufferingUniverseIndividualHuman BeingsCitiesAcceptingFateAchieveEventsDutyDisciplineUniversalResponsibleFellowsDeterminedAriseNeglectSelf DisciplineWhatever HappensUncontrollable Author:Epictetus