"To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant â€” because you're always going against the conformity of the group."

-- Philip Zimbardo

#Hero Quotes #Groups Quotes #Conformity Quotes

“Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment, your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit.”
“Saying that you donâ€™t have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying you donâ€™t have time to stop for gas because youâ€™re too busy driving. Eventually it will catch up with you.”
“The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.”

Source : Edmond Taylor (2015). “The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922”, p.312, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.”
“Amazed how I get so much paper? I'm more amazed how you could be such a hater!”
“Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.”
“The dis-incumbenced stance is the one people should cultivate, we are told, once they recognize that there is no world beyond the human world. They will, indeed must, have their beliefs and values, but they will recognize that these 'lean upon' - and are answerable to - nothing other than human commitments and purposes. The only fidelity, Rorty remarked, can be to our own conventions.”
“The most valuable gift one can receive is thoughtful criticism”

Source : Eric D. Beinhocker (2006). “The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics”, p.15, Harvard Business Press

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