<![CDATA["ntellect is therefore a vital force in history, but it can also be a dissolvent and destructive power.]]>

<![CDATA["ntellect is therefore a vital force in history, but it can also be a dissolvent and destructive power.]]>"ntellect is therefore a vital force in history, but it can also be a dissolvent and destructive power. Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for these are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.

– Will and Ariel Durant"

Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Thinking

A core component of making great decisions is understanding previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.

Farnam Street (fs.blog)

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