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American basketball coach 1910–2010Related quotes
Ingvar Kamprad (1926–2018) Entrepreneur
"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.”
David Hilbert (1862–1943) German prominent mathematician
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”
Maxwell Maltz (1889–1975) Plastic surgeon, self-help author
“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
Essay "Distractions I" in Vedanta for the Western World (1945) edited by Christopher Isherwood
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
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.
