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Five Wise Lines [September 2024]

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No country has ever benefited from a long war.

Sūnzi’s art of war (孙子兵法,) ch. 2

Humans are good intuitive grammarians but poor intuitive statisticians.

Daniel kahneman in Thinking, fast and slow

The highest form of leadership is to attack the enemy’s plans; the next highest is to attack the cohesion of their forces; the next is to attack their troops, and the worst is to besiege their cities.

Sūnzi’s Art of war (孙子兵法,) Ch.3

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Daniel Kahneman in Thinking, Fast and Slow

War is the Way of deception.

Sūnzi’s Art of war (孙子兵法), Ch. 1

Five Wise Lines (March 2024)

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We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or someone’s intention.

Daniel kahneman; Thinking, Fast and slow

If you win, do not boast of your victory; if you lose, do not be discouraged. When it is safe, do not become careless; when it is dangerous, do not fear. Simply continue down the path ahead.

Kanō Jigorō; Founder of Jūdō

A writer makes new life in the void, knocks on silence to make a sound, binds space and time on a sheet of silk and pours out a river from an inch-sized heart.

Lu Ji; Wen Fu (261 – 303)

The worst kind of Virtue never stops striving for Virtue, and so never achieves Virtue.

Laozi

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon. // How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.

Rumi