"The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies."

-- Mortimer Adler

#Wise Quotes #Simple Quotes #Able Quotes

“No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.”
“To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.”
“Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank needs to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path. The decision makers then need to reach judgment about the probabilities, costs and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.”
“Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.”
“Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.”
“A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.”
“I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.”
“I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”

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