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American basketball coach 1910–2010Related quotes
"The Testament of a Furniture Dealer" http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/pdf/reports-downloads/the-testament-of-a-furniture-dealer.pdf (1976).
“One of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.”
On the Cantor set, as quoted in A World Without Time : The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein (2005) by Palle Yourgrau, p. 44
“You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you”
“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".”
Essay "Distractions I" in Vedanta for the Western World (1945) edited by Christopher Isherwood
Ethics (New York:1915), § 14, pp. 38-39
The Principles of Ethics (1897), Part I: The Data of Ethics
Context: People … become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.
“Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.”
