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“The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?”

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Book:A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error

Source: A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error

“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.”

Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French

“It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.”

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Author:Robert H. Jackson

“The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.”

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Book:The Public Philosophy

Source: The Public Philosophy

“An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.”

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Book:Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof

Source: Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof

“Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can err; since he can err, he can suffer. I go further: He must err and he must suffer; for his starting point is ignorance, and in his ignorance he sees before him an infinite number of unknown roads, all of which save one lead to error.”

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Author:Frederic Bastiat

“One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.”

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Author:Horace

“The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.”

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Book:Why I am So Wise

Source: Why I am So Wise

“When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith