“If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul.” IfsSoulUseBodyOrderWishConfusionConfusedDisorder Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.” HumansFactsLawSufferingThreeWishSimpleEconomicBehaviorPercentEconomicsInvestingEnvyPhysicsPsychologicalEndeavorCaptureDisorderEconomistLaws Of NatureCapturedPsychological Disorders Author:Andrew Lo
“The hypothesis I wish to advance is thatthe language of morality is ingrave disorder.... What we possess, if this is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts of which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived. We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions. But we have--very largely if not entirely--lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality.” IfsUseLostLanguageWishExpressionKeysMoralityPracticalsSignificanceDisorderSchemesHypothesisFragmentsTheoreticalComprehension Author:Alasdair MacIntyre
“Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.” KindReasonOrderWishRoomsWallJudgmentBallsDancingAll KindsSatanVisibleDancerRighteousnessDisorderProvokingMischiefWildnessLevity Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing