“Le premier qui, ayant enclos un terrain, s’avisa de dire: Ceci est à moi, et trouva des gens assez simples pour le croire, fut le vrai fondateur de la société civile“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, ‘This is mine,’ and found people naïve enough to believe […]

Edward De Bono went as far as to say that intelligence itself could even trap you and prevent you from solving problems. See, one form of intelligence is the inherent ability to argue your point. According to De Bono, the smarter you are, the better you are at verbal justification, so this will in fact […]

“… the magician suggested to his sheep that they were not sheep at all; to some of them he suggested that they were lions, to others that they were eagles, to others that they were men, and to others that they were magicians.” G. I. Gurdjieff, 1922 (In Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous)

“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.” Frank Costello, as played by Jack Nicholson in The Departed (2006)