by Simon Smith
And another interesting thought…
[A]ll “direct” persons and men of action are active just because they
are stupid and limited. How explain that? I will tell you: in consequence of
their limitation they take immediate and secondary causes for primary ones, and
in that way persuade themselves more quickly and easily than other people do
that they have found an infallible foundation for their activity, and their
minds are at ease and you know that is the chief thing.
Dostoevsky, Feodor. (1996). Notes from the Underground. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 9, 2019, from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/600/600-h/600-h.htm
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