“There are many ways of being wrong, but only one way of being right.”
Susan Stebbing (1885–1943) British philosopher
As quoted in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), p. 153
“The way is the beginning of all beings and the measure of right and wrong.”
— Han Fei
from "The Way of the Ruler", Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings, Columbia University Press, New York, 1996. Translated by Burton Watson.
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