Moral Letters
115 - On False Fronts - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The magic of books is that they allow each reader to create magic in their heads. Sometimes it’s best left there.
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Your Attitude is the Best Predictor of Success (Newsletter 057)
A person of average abilities but a superior attitude will outperform a person with great abilities and a poor attitude.
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114 - On Slogans - Moral Letters for Modern Times
It is precisely when you find your emotions aroused by a small handful of words that you must force yourself to pause. Someone is almost certainly trying to manipulate your thinking for their own ends.
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113 - On The Independence Of Reason - Moral Letters for Modern Times
To ask whether reason exists independently is to question whether it depends on the person or on the situation.
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You Are What You Eat (Newsletter 056)
We humans are profoundly affected by another type of consumption besides what we put in our mouths, and that is what we put in our minds.
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112 - On New Students - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Philosophy always welcomes new students.
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111 - On Clever People - Moral Letters for Modern Times
We are distracted by surface appearances because they are the first things we see. You should seek to understand the deeper meaning, and to be aware that in the wrong hands words can hide as much as they reveal.
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Can Big Government Spending Make Anything Better?(Newsletter 055)
I'd argue that the single greatest problem in government is lack of accountability: we look only to the desirability of the policy objective and not to how well our policies achieve the intended result.
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110 - On The Value Of Wealth - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The true responsibility of parents is to raise their children to be capable of safely making their own way in the world, and not to remove every obstacle from their paths.
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109 - On Your Associations - Moral Letters for Modern Times
If you wish to have a better understanding of the world, spend time in the company of people who demonstrate their depth of perception and see beyond the surface of things.
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What Giving up a Little Bit of Freedom Could Get Us (Newsletter 054)
It wasn't until we moved to Switzerland and lived there a spell that the upside of knowing where people are became clearer.
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108 - On A Learning Mind - Moral Letters for Modern Times
When you are told by experts what to think you may become a believer, but you will not become a thinker.