Quote of Edgar Morin - Action is decision, a choice, but...

Biography - Edgar Morin:

Edgar Morin born Edgar Nahoum is a French philosopher and sociologist .
Born: 1921
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

Action is decision, a choice, but it is also a wager.

Edgar Morin

Translation

(French)

L'action est une décision, un choix, mais c'est aussi un pari.

Edgar Morin

Quotes about decision:

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet /

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

Albert Camus - Chroniques /

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings /

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.

Simone de Beauvoir /

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky /

Only by means of decisions does man enter reality.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel /

All about decision...

Quotes about action:

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus /

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

Paul Valéry - Tel quel /

action

Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding /

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt /

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Henri Bergson /

All about action...

Edgar Morin also said...

The first and fundamental resistance is that of the spirit. It means resisting the intimidation of any lie asserted as truth, the contagion of any collective intoxication.

Edgar Morin /

As soon as an individual takes an action, whatever that action may be, it begins to escape from his intentions.

Edgar Morin /

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